Recognizing the type of returned inherited objects and proxies

hiasl

Hi,

having a slice definition like:

...
class A {...};
class B extends A {...};

interface I {
A getObj();
A *getProxy();
};
...

is their any possibility to recognize at runtime (we use python) that both functions return an instance of class B and its proxy respectively? At least the proxy returned is of type A, but i need type B!
The same i need for inherited interfaces.

if not, could i manipulate the iceId (e.g. the category field which we don't use yet) of the instantiated object/proxy at server side to insert additional class information? I haven't found anything like "getIceId" within the proxies' implementations...

Thanks,

Matthias

matthew

You can cast (either unchecked or checked) the proxy to whatever type you actually want just as the hello world python client does:

twoway = Demo.HelloPrx.checkedCast(self.communicator() ...));

In addition you can call ice_id to get the actual type of the object (or ice_ids to get all types). I suggest looking at the Ice documentation for more information.