[omniORB] CORBA::Any_var

[Duncan Grisby]

On Friday 11 January, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9n_Clas?= wrote:

> I've got a CORBA::Any_var stored as a member variable and in my
> application I want to test if this CORBA::Any_var has been supplied a
> value (for example new CORBA::Any()). For this case, does CORBA offer
> any method similar to the CORBA::is_nil() method for NULL testing a _ptr
> variable ????

There's no nice function to do it, but you can use a side-effect of
the Any_var mapping:

  CORBA::Any_var a;

  if (a.operator->() == 0) {
    cout << "The Any_var has not been initialised" << endl;

Cheers,

Duncan.

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