Re: [orbitcpp-list] Two IDLN enumerations for Any, which one to use

[Phil D. <ph...@li...>]

Gordon Miller wrote:
> 
> I've written an extension to the pyIDL to add an IDLTypeAny object and
> I've also written a test for it.  While writing the test, I discovered
> that IDL.h defines two enumerations for Any's IDLN_ANY and
> IDLN_TYPE_ANY.  Does anyone know the difference?  Which one should I be
> using?  I'm currently using IDLN_TYPE_ANY.
> 

I believe the IDLN_ANY type is for representing actual ANY values, like
are used in const declarations: e.g. 

const Any foo =  <VALUE OF ANY>;

 (or at least that's how it works with IDLN_INTEGER verses
IDLN_TYPE_INTEGER). IDLN_TYPE_ANY is (as you correctly assumed) for
representing the type, as used in operation signatures etc.. 

> I'm attaching a diff that was done in the pyIDL directory with my
> changes.  These should include changes to src/pyIDL, src/test.py,
> tests/any.idl, tests/any.py

Thanks, I'll mail back once I've looked at it.

Cheers,

Phil.