[omniORB] How to cdrMarshal CORBA.Any value?

[Duncan Grisby]

On Friday 28 December, Anton Dedov wrote:

> I am trying form request context in interceptor via Python interface
> of omniORB. Our server part is working under ACE-TAO. Server-side
> interceptors wait for a context data encapsulated into Any. But I
> cannot marshal Any value with cdrMarshal:
> 
> >>> s = SecurityContext(...)
> >>> s_any = CORBA.Any(CORBA.TypeCode(CORBA.id(s)), s)
> >>> cdrMarshal(CORBA.TypeCode(CORBA.id(s_any)), s_any)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<console>", line 1, in ?
>   File "./omniORB/CORBA.py", line 480, in id
> BAD_PARAM: CORBA.BAD_PARAM(omniORB.BAD_PARAM_WrongPythonType, CORBA.COMPLETED_NO)

CORBA.id() is only intended to work on declared types, not on base types
like Any. According to the mapping specification, you should use
CORBA.TC_any to get Any's TypeCode:

  cdrMarshal(CORBA.TC_any, s_any)

Cheers,

Duncan.

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