Re: Dynany

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Chris,

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 13:04, Chris Roberts wrote:
> I'm trying to use Dynamic Any's. I snagged some code from bonobo-arg.c 
> as per an email I found of Michael's on the net, but I can't get it to 
> link or compile:

	Ah ;-) I suspect you're a victim of the OMG changing the spec.
underneath you. You need to look at a recent
libbonobo/bonobo/bonobo-arg.c:

	f = (DynamicAny_DynAnyFactory)
		CORBA_ORB_resolve_initial_references (
			bonobo_orb(), "DynAnyFactory", &ev);

	g_return_val_if_fail (!BONOBO_EX (&ev), NULL);

	dyn = DynamicAny_DynAnyFactory_create_dyn_any_from_type_code (
		f, t, &ev);
	

	Which sucks even more (of course ;-) so the whole thing is rather badly
complicated.

	For simple cases I recommend using bonobo-arg.h itself; and for more
complex cases, building the value using a C structure / whatever, and
shoe-horning it into the any->_value.

> What's the correct way to create and use DynAny's?

	Prolly to avoid it ;-) it's an over-engineered mess IMHO.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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