// 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()
