Re: IDL4 and state description

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:18:20AM -0500, Andreas Haeberlen wrote:
> Value types are a fairly high-level feature, and to implement them,
> you need a whole lot of infrastructure on both the server side
> (where you have to know what exactly constitutes the state of an
> object) and the client side (where you have to create an object
> of the same type with a specific state). Given that IDL4 is a stub
> code generator and was never intended to be a full-blown CORBA
> implementation, I would rather not add this feature unless someone
> finds a real problem that cannot be solved efficiently without it.

What makes it more difficult than marshalling parameters?

Another solution to allow an object state to be exported would be to add
a `get_state ()' method added to the interface definition that would
return a CORBA struct representing the object state.  However, this
requires, on the server side, to implement it by hand while value types
could automate this.

Thanks,
Ludovic.