why cast

[rodolfo.bamberg]

I was wondering, why the the following process at client side has to be made (also in CORBA):
1- ObjectPrx reference
2 - narrow to MyInterfacePrx

Why do mappings not provide a direct resolving feature like:
MyInterfacePrx..ic.stringToProxy(....);

[bernard]

Hi Rodolfo,

Welcome to our forums!

Usually you pass proxies around as proxies, so there is no need to call stringToProxy or perform any casting.

However, Ice also provides a way to represent a proxy as a printable ASCII string. This is typically used for bootstrap: you manufacture proxies for a few root objects, and get proxies to other objects from them.

This is done through stringToProxy or propertyToProxy on the communicator object. I guess we could have casts that perform also stringToProxy, i.e.:

MyInterfacePrx obj = MyInterfacePrx.checkedStringToProxy(ic, str);

but this doesn't sound more convenient than:

MyInterfacePrx obj = MyInterfacePrx.checkedCast(ic.stringToProxy(str));

Cheers,
Bernard

[rodolfo.bamberg]

Thanks

Regards,
Rodolfo