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- #!/usr/bin/env python
- #############################################################################
- # Copyright (C) DSTC Pty Ltd (ACN 052 372 577) 1997, 1998, 1999
- # All Rights Reserved.
- #
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- # then you have no rights to use this software in any manner and
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- #
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- # this software.
- #
- # Project: Fnorb
- # File: $Source: /units/arch/src/Fnorb/examples/hello-world/RCS/client.py,v $
- # Version: @(#)$RCSfile: client.py,v $ $Revision: 1.5 $
- #
- #############################################################################
- """ Client for the "Hello World" example. """
-
-
- # Standard/built-in modules.
- import sys
-
- # Fnorb modules.
- from Fnorb.orb import CORBA
-
- # Stubs generated by 'fnidl'.
- import HelloWorld
-
-
- def main(argv):
- """ Do it! """
-
- print 'Initialising the ORB...'
-
- # Initialise the ORB.
- orb = CORBA.ORB_init(argv, CORBA.ORB_ID)
-
- # Read the server's stringified IOR from a file (this is just a 'cheap and
- # cheerful' way of locating the server - in practise the client would use
- # the naming or trader services).
- stringified_ior = open('server.ref').read()
-
- # Convert the stringified IOR into an active object reference.
- server = orb.string_to_object(stringified_ior)
-
- # Make sure that the server is not a 'nil object reference' (represented
- # in Python by the value 'None').
- if server is None:
- raise 'Nil object reference!'
-
- # Make sure that the object implements the expected interface!
- if not server._is_a('IDL:dstc.edu.au/HelloWorld/HelloWorldIF:1.0'):
- raise 'This is not a "HelloWorldIF" server!'
-
- # Call the server!
- print server.hello_world()
-
- return 0
-
- #############################################################################
-
- if __name__ == '__main__':
- # Do it!
- sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
-
- #############################################################################
-