[omniORB] enum checking?

[Bartosz Klimek]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Saroj Mahapatra wrote:

> > > Does anyone know if CORBA requires an ORB to check the validity of an enum
> > > passed as a parameter?
> > >
> > > Whether or not CORBA requires this, does omniORB do this?
> > 
> > I don't think the GIOP specification requires that an ORB checks such
> > things. omniORB does check, however. I would imagine most ORBs do.
> 
> Orbix does not!

I've had different experiences with Orbix. It wouldn't pass an invalid
enum. I just didn't initialize an enum field of a big structure because I
didn't need to in that particular case. I spent hours :( on looking for
the error...

Anyway, I think it is a nice feature of ORB to check enums. One of things
I like CORBA for is that I can assume that the data I get from the remote
object is correct, at least at the low level.

Regards,

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Bartosz Klimek

Distributed Systems Research Group
   Institute of Computer Science
University of Mining and Metallurgy
         Cracow, Poland

mailto:bartekk@ics.agh.edu.pl