Re: random.org Random.ior and orbit-python

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

>
> Does anyone have an idea why we get a
>
> Message: CORBA exception raised: IDL:CORBA/MARSHAL:1.0
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "./random", line 14, in ?
>     o = myorb.string_to_object(ior)
> CORBA.SystemException: IDL:CORBA/MARSHAL:1.0: IDL:CORBA/MARSHAL:1.0
>
> when trying to string_to_object random.org's IOR:
>
> IOR:000000000000000f49444c3a52616e646f6d3a312e3000000000000100000000000000500001000000000016706c616e7874792e6473672e63732e7463642e69650006220000002c3a5c706c616e7874792e6473672e63732e7463642e69653a52616e646f6d3a303a3a49523a52616e646f6d00
>
> The c client that random.org provides works perfectly, so I wouldn't think
> it's an Orbit issue, but it appears Orbit _is_ raising an exception, so
> I'm left wondering.

Maybe the 'ior' that you are passing has trailing newlines or something -
the string_to_object routine in ORBit releases doesn't strip off
whitespace...

-- Elliot
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