// fortune.idl -- the interface definition
module Fortune {
  interface CookieServer {
    string get_cookie();
  };
};


#
# The client, on the command line
#

>>> import CORBA, Fortune
>>> orb = CORBA.ORB_init()
>>> o = orb.string_to_object("corbaloc::host.example.com/fortune")
>>> o = o._narrow(Fortune.CookieServer)
>>> print o.get_cookie()

#
# The server
#

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, os
import CORBA, Fortune, Fortune__POA

FORTUNE_PATH = "/usr/games/fortune"

class CookieServer_i (Fortune__POA.CookieServer):
    def get_cookie(self):
        pipe   = os.popen(FORTUNE_PATH)
        cookie = pipe.read()
        if pipe.close():
            # An error occurred with the pipe
            cookie = "Oh dear, couldn't get a fortune\n"
        return cookie

orb = CORBA.ORB_init(sys.argv)
poa = orb.resolve_initial_references("RootPOA")

servant = CookieServer_i()
poa.activate_object(servant)

print orb.object_to_string(servant._this())

poa._get_the_POAManager().activate()
orb.run()