Attributes in CORBA IDL

(W3C WSDWG Attributes TF)

Jeff Mischkinsky

Oracle Corporation

27 Jun 2003

IDL attributes

• Use of attribute is syntactic sugar for defining a get and set operation
• The concrete programming language syntax for the getter/setter is defined by the IDL language binding which defines the:
  • operation name
  • parameter types
  • return type, if any
• A readonly attribute does not have a set operation

Example

// IDL example
interface foo {
   attribute long myattr;
   };

// Java
public interface foo extends
     org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLentity {
     int myattr();
     void myattr(int p1);
}