IDL to ASN String length mismatch

Hi,

I'm converting the IDL string data to ASN Graphic String .. After
coping the string the length of the ASN String data is one more than
the IDL data. I'm using jacorb and TAO orb for CORBA implementation.
Is this is a known problem ?

Thanks in Advance,
Arun V.

Hi Arun,

>I'm converting the IDL string data to ASN Graphic String .. After
>coping the string the length of the ASN String data is one more than
>the IDL data. I'm using jacorb and TAO orb for CORBA implementation.
>Is this is a known problem ?

It's not really clear what problem you're having. In addition to give
a small example that shows the problem, please make sure to send all
questions related to TAO to the TAO mailing list or ACE+TAO newsgroup
comp.soft-sys-ace, rather than to comp.object.corba directly since the
TAO gurus tend to hang out there. See

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-mail.html

for more info on how to access these resources.

In addition, to ensure that we have proper version/platform/compiler
information, please make sure you fill out the appropriate problem
report form (PRF), which is in

$ACE_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM
$TAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM

or in

$ACE_ROOT/BUG-REPORT-FORM
$TAO_ROOT/BUG-REPORT-FORM

in older versions of ACE+TAO. Make sure to include this information
when asking any questions about ACE+TAO since otherwise we have to
"guess" what version/platform/compiler/options you've using, which is
very error-prone and slows down our responsiveness.

Thanks,

Doug
--
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science TEL: (615) 343-8197
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On 31 Jul, 04:06, "arun.viswan...@gmail.com"
<arun.viswan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm converting the IDL string data to ASN Graphic String .. *After
> coping the string the length of the ASN String data is one more than
> the IDL data. I'm using jacorb and TAO orb for CORBA implementation.
> Is this is a known problem ?

I've never used ASN, but I did a Google search to find some
information on its encoding rules. From what I read I suspect that
a string is being encoded as <length><characters><null-byte>
and <length> is set to be the length of the string plus 1, with the
extra 1 in the length being for the terminating null byte.

Regards,
Ciaran.