[omniORB] Client recieves omniORB.CORBA.BAD_PARAM when receiving long.

[Stephen White]

Thanks Duncan for your response.  

I umm, resent the question literally seconds before I recieved your 
reply.  Guess you can ignore that one.  :-)

Thanks again.

spw


Duncan Grisby wrote:

>On Wednesday 6 November, Stephen White wrote:
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>>Using omniORBpy on Linux, I have a server which returns a single field 
>>defined in IDL as "long".  Picking a value out of the air, if the server 
>>returns 131 the client is fine, but if the server returns  131L   the 
>>client receives  omniORB.CORBA.BAD_PARAM.  Shouldn't omniORB recognize 
>>the Python long as an appropriate IDL long?  Or am I not understanding 
>>something?  A simple code example is below:
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>The correct mapping for IDL long is to Python int. omniORBpy 1.x is
>strict about it, and it refuses any other numeric type, including
>long. omniORBpy 2.0 has relaxed that, and it now accepts longs where
>ints are expected.
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>Cheers,
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>Duncan.
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