CORBA::Any - The void pointer of CORBA
my $any = new CORBA::Any();
if (!$any->insert(88, 'unsigned long')) {
print "Unable to insert an unsigned long for some reason.\n";
}
my $value;
if ($any->extract(\$value, CORBA::_tc_ulong)) {
print "This CORBA::Any contains $value\n";
}
The CORBA::Any can be used as a generic holder for various CORBA types as well as user defined types. This generic holder can be passed as parameters to or returned from IDL interface methods. In order to do this, the CORBA::Any moduled must be loaded before any IDL generated modules are loaded.
insert - This method takes a value, the first paramter, and stores it.
The second parameter determines the type (either a string representation
or an actual CORBA::TypeCode) of the first paramter. If the
second parameter is omitted, the value's type will be automatically
determined (as well as possible, since scalar types do not have type
information). It returns true if the insertion is successful.
The following types are currently supported:
null - CORBA::_tc_null void - CORBA::_tc_void short - CORBA::_tc_short long - CORBA::_tc_long unsigned short - CORBA::_tc_ushort unsigned long - CORBA::_tc_ulong float - CORBA::_tc_float double - CORBA::_tc_double boolean - CORBA::_tc_boolean char - CORBA::_tc_char octet - CORBA::_tc_octet any - CORBA::_tc_any TypeCode - CORBA::_tc_TypeCode objref - CORBA::_tc_Object struct union enum string - CORBA::_tc_string string<bound> sequence array alias except long long - CORBA::_tc_longlong unsigned long long - CORBA::_tc_ulonglong long double - CORBA::_tc_longdouble local_interface wchar - CORBA::_tc_wchar wstring - CORBA::_tc_wstring
extract - This method takes a scalar reference as the first parameter
and places the stored value into it. The second parameter, if provided,
determines the desired type. It returns true if the second parameter is
omitted or the desired type matches the stored type.
type - The CORBA::TypeCode of the stored type.