[omniORB] enum checking?

[Saroj Mahapatra]

Bartosz Klimek wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Well, it was OrbixWeb client that sent invalid enum to Orbix server.

-Saroj Mahapatra


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