[omniORB] BAD_PARAM_WrongPythonType

[Arnaud Compan]

Hi Luke,

I've found my mistake...
I tried to make a little example to reproduce the problem. It took me some
time because this example was working. So I added more and more things until
it finally failed.
My mistake was in the value of an attribute of the Flow structure. This
attribute was:
    struct Flow
    {
      string         source;
      unsigned long  ip_address;
    };
and I did
    flow.ip_address = socket.inet_aton ('1.2.3.4')
The bug is obvious now because inet_aton() doesn't return an unsigned long.
The right thing to do is:
    flow.ip_address = struct.unpack ('>L', socket.inet_aton ('1.2.3.4')) [0]

The Flow structure has about 30 attributes in real life so I didn't see the
problem.

Thanks for your help, regards,
	Arnaud.


>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Luke Deller [mailto:ldeller at xplantechnology.com]
>Envoyé : Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:30 AM
>À : Compan
>Cc : omniorb-list at omniorb-support.com
>Objet : Re: [omniORB] BAD_PARAM_WrongPythonType
>
>
>Hi Arnaud,
>
>I tried to replicate your problem using your IDL and python snippets,
>but it worked fine for me.  I was using the same versions of python,
>omniORB and omniORBpy.  Could you send us a complete example to
>reproduce your problem?
>
>Have you double-checked that your stubs have been rebuilt with omniidl
>since your last edit to the IDL file?
>
>Regards,
>Luke.
>
>On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:10 -0600, Compan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My python client gets this exception when invoking a request.
>>
>> IDL:
>>
>>     struct Flow
>>     {
>>       string source;
>>     };
>>
>>     interface CollectorConsumer
>>     {
>>       oneway void on_test (in Flow f);
>>     };
>>
>> python code:
>>     flow = new.instance (Flow)
>>     flow.source = 'ipe'
>>     consumer.on_test (flow)
>>
>> Using -ORBtraceLevel 10, the output is:
>>   omniORB: throw BAD_PARAM from pyMarshal.cc:263
>> (NO,BAD_PARAM_WrongPythonType)
>> The exception is thrown by the validateTypeULong() function.
>>
>> I have no idea of how to solve this so any help would be appreciated.
>> I'm using python 2.4.1 and omniORB 4.0.6 (with omniORBpy 2.6)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Arnaud.
>
>
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