Re: IOR parsing

[Frank Rehberger <Frank Rehberger web de>]

Marc Siegel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When parsing IOR's with ORBit, the "file://" form does not work. This 
> form works in MICO and TAO.

yes, you are right, file:// is not supported,
1.) is not recommended for CORBA compliance,
2.) support for file:// and http:// would introduce security risks, 
reading source of object reference should be handled by user code.

For conveniance ORBit2 supports form of object reference like

iiop::host:port/object-name

> When parsing IOR's with ORBit, if the .ref file is not present, an 
> uncaught exception occurs. In MICO and TAO, IIRC, a "nil" CORBA object 
> is returned that can then be tested with CORBA::is_nil() to give a 
> graceful error message.

This is due to C-language-mapping, ORBit2 is pure  C code, please test 
for NIL object in C like style:

if (objref==CORBA_OBJECT_NIL) {
   /* handle NIL object */
}

Regards,
Frank