Re: BUG in CORBA_ORB_object_to_string, created bad IOR, .....

[Sergiu Gavrila <sg itdesign de>]

David Eriksson wrote:
> On Thursday 01 March 2001 15:10, you wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I have o problem using the ORBit CORBA_ORB_object_to_string method. I am
> > ...............
> > [snip]
>
> I belive you have a truly invalid IOR:
>     
That's the problem!
> -----
>
> $ ior-decode 
> 'IOR:010000001900000049444c3a4c412f4c697374656e616e73696368743a312e3000000000020000000000000048000000010100000e0000003139322e3136382e312e313838000dc92c00000000564201000000115642526f6f74504f412f626f615f74700020202000000002323820203a9e3d0c000d97bd'
> Tags known:
> TAG_INTERNET_IOP: 0x0
> TAG_MULTIPLE_COMPONENTS: 0x1
> TAG_ORBIT_SPECIFIC: 0xbadfaeca
>
> Object ID: IDL:LA/Listenansicht:1.0
> Profile count: 2
>
> Profile type: TAG_INTERNET_IOP
> Object endian: Little
> IIOP version: 1.0
> Host: 192.168.1.188
> Port: -14067
> Object key: ".VB.....VBRootPOA/boa_tp.   ....28  :.=....."
>
> Profile type: TAG_INTERNET_IOP
> [DEBUG   ]: CDR_buffer_gets: attempt to read past end of buffer
>
> -----
>
> (Output produced by ior-decode from ORBit 0.5.6)
>
> Note: the port number is just printed as a signed short, not unsigned, so 
> that should not be t!
> he problem.
>
> And when I try iordump from MICO 2.3.1, I get "error: illegal object 
> reference", so it's not only ORBit that cannot handle your IOR.
>       
Yes, but the IOR is generated by ORBit! This IOR was in the warning from
the ORBit's CORBA_object_to_string method, as the method returns NULL instead
of the string desired.
So why did ORBit generates a bad IOR? It has no problem to invoke methods
on the same reference. I think that it just gives me a warning (** WARNING
**: IOP_TAG_MULTIPLE_COMPONENTS decoding needs finishing) but in rest is
ok. So a method invocation works, but the CORBA_object_to_string method does
not. 
Why?
      
      
    Sergiu Gavrila