Name: md23716 Date: 04/13/2000


This is a problem in rmi-iiop....

org.omg.CORBA.portable.ObjectImpl.toString is implemented like so:

public String toString() {
return _get_delegate().toString(this);
}

If someone creates a skeleton, call it s, and executes the following
BEFORE connecting it to the ORB:

System.err.println ("s is " + s);

it will fail with org.omg.CORBA.BAD_OPERATION: The delegate has not
been set! minor code: 0 completed: No ,
because toString is called and the delegate doesn't yet exist. This
seems rather extreme since it's should be perfectly legitimate to call toString
any time after an object exists.

This is additionally problematic in IBM's Component Broker world because this
has localOnly objects. LocalOnly objects (like Currents) extend CORBA::Object
(and hence ObjectImpl), but are never connected to the ORB. So WHENEVER you
try calling localOnlyObject.toString (), it will fail.

We have a suggested solution for this, which I will email to Licensee Engineering.

(Review ID: 103635)

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