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Overview The describe operation returns a structure containing information about a CORBA::ModuleDef Interface Repository object. Original interface ModuleDef Interface Exceptions CORBA::SystemException
Intended Usage
The inherited describe operation returns a structure (CORBA::Contained::Description) that contains information about a CORBA::ModuleDef Interface Repository object. The CORBA::Contained::Description structure has two fields: kind (CORBA::DefinitionKind data type), and value (CORBA::Any data type).
The kind of definition described by the returned structure is provided using the kind field, and the value field is a CORBA::Any that contains the description that is specific to the kind of object described. When the describe operation is invoked on a module (CORBA::ModuleDef) object, the kind field is equal to CORBA::dk_Module and the value field contains the CORBA::ModuleDescription structure.
IDL Syntax
struct ModuleDescription { Identifier name; RepositoryId id; RepositoryId defined_in; VersionSpec version; }; struct Description { DefinitionKind kind; any value; }; Description describe ();
Input parameters
None.
Return values
- Description *
- The returned value is a pointer to a CORBA::Contained::Description structure. The memory is owned by the caller and can be removed using delete.
Example
// C++ // assume that 'this_module' has already been initialized CORBA::ModuleDef * this_module; // retrieve a description of the module CORBA::Contained::Description * returned_description; returned_description = this_module-> describe (); // retrieve the module description from the returned description structure CORBA::ModuleDescription * module_description; module_description = (CORBA::ModuleDescription * ) returned_description value.value ();
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Parent: CORBA module: ModuleDef Interface | |