IX90141: THROW BAD_OPERATION ON TYPE MISMATCHES IN HELPER EXTRACTION

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Error Message: A proper type of exception
  (org.omg.CORBA.BAD_OPERATION) needs to be thrown out of the
  extract() method of IBM ORB-generated Helper classes whenever
  the actual type of provided Any object does not match the type
  expected by the Helper.Currently, the auto-generated
  xxxHelper.extract() method may throw org.omg.CORBA.MARSHAL or
  OutOfMemoryError exception object when calling code provides an
  Any object as the argument to extract() method in auto-generated
  Helper classes and the actual marshalled IDL type in the Any
  object does not correspond to the IDL type workable by the
  Helper.There is a third category of exceptions that need to be
  addressed. There is no type check in the idlj generated helper
  class to thwart unmarshalling when the returned type is not
  compatible with the expected type. The exception thrown when the
  unmarshalling fails is not helpful in debugging either.
  .
  Stack Trace: N/A
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• There is no type check in the idlj generated helper class to
  thwart unmarshalling when the returned type is not compatible
  with the expected type. The exception thrown when the
  unmarshalling fails is not helpful in debugging either.
  

Problem conclusion

• This APAR will be fixed in the following Java Releases:
     6    SR16      (6.0.16.0)
     7    SR7       (7.0.7.0)
     6 R1 SR8       (6.1.8.0)
     7 R1 SR1       (7.1.1.0)
  .
  IDLJ code has been fixed such that the generated Helper class
  has a typecode equivalence check to ensure that the complex type
  being unmarshalled matches the expected typecode else throws a
  BAD_OPERATION ex
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  ORB

• Fixed component ID

  620700123

Applicable component levels

• R600 PSY

     UP

• R260 PSY

     UP