[omniORB] Problem with inheritance

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 10 March, "W. Borgert" wrote:

> I'm not sure, whether this is a CORBA question or an omniORB one.
> Anyway: I have a server with an interface A and a derived interface B.
> The server implements interface B.  I have a client, that does have
> only the IDL of interface A, so it does not know about interface B.
> The client narrows the server reference successfully to A, but fails
> on the first method invocation (that is, of course, part of interface
> A).  If the client is compiled with both A and B, everything works
> fine.  The server is omniORB 4.0.3 C++, the client is omniORB Python
> 2.3.  Is this behaviour according to the CORBA spec?  How can I solve
> the problem?

What you describe should work fine. Can you get traces at traceLevel
25 from both the client and server where it goes wrong?

Cheers,

Duncan.

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