Issue 5891: Guidance on RepositoryIDs for primitive types (java2idl-rtf)
Source: Oracle (Dr. Andrew Piper, andyp(at)bea.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
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Summary: I have noticed that the Sun ORB generates RepositoryIds for primitive types when generating a FullValueDescription that looks like this:


RMI:int:000000000000000000


Now you could argue that the type of int is Integer.TYPE and the function getName() on this class does indeed return "int" however there are explicit mappings for primitive types (int -> IDL long) and this just seems wrong to me.


Should the repid be null or something else? Does it matter?

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March 18, 2003: received issue
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This is issue # 5891		Andy Piper <andyp@bea.com>


Guidance on RepositoryIDs for primitive types 

I have noticed that the Sun ORB generates RepositoryIds for primitive types when generating a FullValueDescription that looks like this:


RMI:int:000000000000000000


Now you could argue that the type of int is Integer.TYPE and the function getName() on this class does indeed return "int" however there are explicit mappings for primitive types (int -> IDL long) and this just seems wrong to me.


Should the repid be null or something else? Does it matter?