[omniORB] python and idl files

Stefan Seefeld seefelds@MAGELLAN.UMontreal.CA
Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:54:23 -0500


Duncan Grisby wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 14 March, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> 
> > does this mean omniORB has 'kind of' an interface repository
> > mechanism ? I know that it doesn't have a real one but how hard
> > would it be to add the missing pieces to have a real IR ?
> 
> No, omniORB does not have any kind of interface repository. The
> importIDL() function simply forks the IDL compiler and execs the
> output within Python.

I see

> If you want to implement an interface repository, I think Python would
> be the ideal language to do it...

alternatively, would it be possible to interface the _omniidl C++ API
directly, i.e. write a IDLVisitor which populizes the IR ? I guess what
I'm asking for is: is the internally used _omniidlmodule.so (or can it
be) an official (i.e., public) part of omniORB ?

Regards,	Stefan

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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: seefelds@magellan.umontreal.ca

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