2005-06-07 Audrius Meskauskas <AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org>.

* org/omg/CORBA/UnionMemberHelper.java
org/omg/CORBA/ValueMemberHelper.java
org/omg/CORBA/StructMemberHelper.java
org/omg/CORBA/IDLTypeHelper.java
org/omg/CORBA/_IDLTypeStub.java: New files.
* gnu/CORBA/IOR.java (write_null, _read_no_endian),
gnu/CORBA/CDR/cdrInput.java (read_Object),
gnu/CORBA/CDR/cdrOutput.java (write_Object):
Implemented sending of java null.

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/CORBA/IOR.java b/gnu/CORBA/IOR.java
index 056009f06..b2ff20e79 100644
--- a/gnu/CORBA/IOR.java
+++ b/gnu/CORBA/IOR.java
@@ -371,6 +371,13 @@ public class IOR
    * thansferred in this form in
    * {@link write_Object(org.omg.CORBA.Object)}.
    *
+   * If the stream contains a null value, the Id and Internet fields become
+   * equal to null. Otherwise Id contains some string (possibly
+   * empty).
+   *
+   * Id is checked for null in cdrInput that then returns
+   * null instead of object.
+   *
    * @param c a stream to read from.
    * @throws IOException if the stream throws it.
    */
@@ -381,6 +388,13 @@ public class IOR
 
     int n_profiles = c.read_long();
 
+    if (n_profiles == 0)
+      {
+        Id = null;
+        Internet = null;
+        return;
+      }
+
     for (int i = 0; i < n_profiles; i++)
       {
         int tag = c.read_long();
@@ -435,6 +449,21 @@ public class IOR
   }
 
   /**
+   * Write a null value to the CDR output stream.
+   *
+   * The null value is written as defined in OMG specification
+   * (zero length string, followed by an empty set of profiles).
+   */
+  public static void write_null(cdrOutput out)
+  {
+    // Empty Id string.
+    out.write_string("");
+
+    // Empty set of profiles.
+    out.write_long(0);
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Write this IOR record to the provided CDR stream. The procedure
    * writed data in Big Endian, but does NOT add any endian marker
    * to the beginning.