During the PI refactoring I found the TAO_ORBInitInfo_var in tao/ORBInitInfo.h.
It is just for the following:
It is there so that users can do the following in their ORBInitializers:
TAO_ORBInitInfo_var tao_info =
TAO_ORBInitInfo::_narrow (info
ACE_ENV_ARG_PARAMETER);
ACE_CHECK;
if (CORBA::is_nil (tao_info.in ()))
ACE_THROW (CORBA::INV_OBJREF ());
// SSLIOP doesn't use the ORB Core until a request invocation occurs
// so there is no problem in retrieving the ORB Core pointer in this
// pre_init() method.
TAO_ORB_Core *orb_core = tao_info->orb_core ();
The narrow could be a dynamic_cast, that works now, but the ORBInitInfo also has
in the latest spec a get_orb() which can then be used, but this is not
implemented yet.
This TAO specific extension has to be removed in the future
During the PI refactoring I found the TAO_ORBInitInfo_var in tao/ORBInitInfo.h. It is just for the following: It is there so that users can do the following in their ORBInitializers: TAO_ORBInitInfo_var tao_info = TAO_ORBInitInfo::_narrow (info ACE_ENV_ARG_PARAMETER); ACE_CHECK; if (CORBA::is_nil (tao_info.in ())) ACE_THROW (CORBA::INV_OBJREF ()); // SSLIOP doesn't use the ORB Core until a request invocation occurs // so there is no problem in retrieving the ORB Core pointer in this // pre_init() method. TAO_ORB_Core *orb_core = tao_info->orb_core (); The narrow could be a dynamic_cast, that works now, but the ORBInitInfo also has in the latest spec a get_orb() which can then be used, but this is not implemented yet. This TAO specific extension has to be removed in the future