An Any object serves as a container for any user defined IDL data type or for any IDL primitive type.

It consists of two parts:

1. a data value
2. a TypeCode object describing the type of the data value contained in the Any object. For example, a TypeCode object for an array contains a field for the length of the array and a field for the type of elements in the array. (Note that in this case, the second field of the TypeCode object is itself a TypeCode object.)  

 

For a given primitive type A the Any class provides of a pair of methods for inserting and extracting values:

void insert_A( A arg )

This method allows the insertion of an instance arg of primitive type A into the value field of the Any object. The type field is set accordingly.

A extract_A()

This method allows the extraction of an instance of type A from the Any object.

This method throws the exception BAD_OPERATION under two conditions:

1. the type of the element contained in the Any object is not A
2. the method extract_A is called before the value field of the Any object has been set

 

List of members: Any Members.

System.Object
 Any

Requirements

Namespace: Ics Namespace

Assembly: Jintegra.Espresso.dll

See Also

Any Members | Ics.CORBA Namespace

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