CORBA34 — [Components] Contradiction between IDL and Interface Repository concerning

According to the IDL language it is allowed to define a facet/receptacle on a component with type of Object. The text says:

A facet is declared with the following syntax:
(120) <provides_dcl> ::= “provides” <interface_type> <identifier>
(121) <interface_type> ::= <scoped_name>

In contradiction to that the Interface Repository element for a component, the ComponentDef, does only allow the creation of facets/receptacles with type of InterfaceDef. The according operations are:

// write interface
ProvidesDef create_provides (
in RepositoryId id,
in Identifier name,
in VersionSpec version,
in InterfaceDef interface_type
);
UsesDef create_uses (
in RepositoryId id,
in Identifier name,
in VersionSpec version,
in InterfaceDef interface_type,
in boolean is_multiple
);

Thus the ComponentDef can not be used to create a facet/receptacle that is of type Object, since Object is no InterfaceDef but a PrimitiveDef.
One solution would be to use IDLType instead of InterfaceDef since PrimitiveDef and InterfaceDef inherit from that interface. My proposal is to change the Interface Repository IDL in the following way.

1) replace in ComponentDef:

// write interface
ProvidesDef create_provides (
in RepositoryId id,
in Identifier name,
in VersionSpec version,
in IDLType interface_type
);
UsesDef create_uses (
in RepositoryId id,
in Identifier name,
in VersionSpec version,
in IDLType interface_type,
in boolean is_multiple
);

2) replace ProvidesDef, ProvidesDecsription, UsesDef, UsesDescription with

interface ProvidesDef : Contained

;

struct ProvidesDescription

;

interface UsesDef : Contained

;

struct UsesDescription

;

Deferred

This proposal was generated automatically by request of the Task Force Chair Adam Mitz.