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  1. OMG Issue

CORBA35 — Moving *Seq typedefs into ORB chapter

  • Key: CORBA35-135
  • Legacy Issue Number: 8586
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Zuehlke Engineering ( Frank Pilhofer)
  • Summary:

    In the CORBA specification, chapter 5 (Value Type
    Semantics), section 5.5 (Custom Marshalling), defines
    sequences of primitive types in the CORBA module,
    i.e., CORBA::StringSeq et al. Some of these types are
    then used by the DynamicAny and Portable Interceptor
    chapters.

    The presence of these typedefs in section 5.5 seems
    to imply that they only need to be defined if the ORB
    implements custom marshalling – a feature still
    lacking in some open-source and commercial ORBs.

    In my experience, having worked with multiple ORBs,
    many of them do not provide the complete set of
    typedefs in their "orb.idl" file. Many ORBs only
    provide a limited set, usually, the set that is
    exercised by the other ORB features (such as PI).
    This implies that most ORBs added these typedefs
    on an "as needed" basis instead of simply referring
    to section 5.5.

    I suggest to move these typedefs from section 5.5
    into chapter 4 (ORB interface), e.g., into section
    4.2 (ORB operations) to highlight that these types
    should be present even if custom marshalling is not
    implemented by the ORB.

    Proposed resolution:

    In section 5.5.2 (Marshalling Streams), cut the
    type definitions, starting with AnySeq, up to and
    including WStringSeq.

    In section 4.2, in the IDL code fragment, at the
    beginning of the CORBA module, paste the type
    definitions cut above.

  • Reported: CORBA 3.0.3 — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 21:59 GMT