[omniORB] Extracting object ref. from TypeAny

Duncan Grisby dgrisby@uk.research.att.com
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:38:05 +0000


On Tuesday 29 January, humbein@gmx.de wrote:

> Hence I tried something like:
> EventData_ptr event; //ok
> data >>= event;	//ok
> cout << (*event).id() << "|" << (*event).value() << endl; //error
> 
> The runtime error that comes up is "omniORB: ERROR -- the
> application attempted to invoke an operation on a nil reference."

The object reference stored in the Any must have been a nil object
reference. Check the code that inserts it.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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