[jacorb-developer] IDL generator does not initialize typedef strings

[Nick Cross]

Does turning jacorb.interop.null_string_encoding on help?

Regards

Nick


On 07/11/13 07:58, Flock, Matthias wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> the MARSHAL Exception is thrown when an instance of the object, where
> "id" was not set, should be written via the generated Helper class
> (MyStructHelper.write).
>
> Currently we removed all these typedefs and defined the fields directly
> as strings. I can live with that, but generally it would be easier if
> they would be initialized.
>
> Matthias
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi,
>
> Currently, this is its intended behaviour - but I agree it would be
> better if it was initialised to be the same as the other string.
>
> Where does it cause a MARSHAL ?
>
> Regards
>
> Nick
>
>
> On 04/11/13 09:08, Flock, Matthias wrote:
>> We recently moved from another ORB to JacORB and are now facing a
>> problem with the generation from IDL.
>>
>> For easier reading we use some string typedefs (small example):
>>
>> module IDL {
>> 	typedef string PartId;
>> 		
>> 	struct MyStruct
>> 	{
>> 	   string name;
>> 	   PartId id;
>> 	};
>> };
>>
>> In the generated java classes the field "name" is initialized with "",
>
>> but the "id" is not, even though it is also a string in java. The
>> other generator we used did also initialize them. This causes MARSHAL
>> excpetions because of null values.
>>
>> Can the generation be changed via config or is this intended behaviour
>
>> or is it a bug?
>>
>> Matthias
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