Hello,

I'm experimenting with multiple clients connecting to the OMC for querying and modifying the model. I am running the omc in Corba interactive mode with
"omc +d=interactiveCorba". I was able to establish a connection between the omc server and two local clients using some of the example python code found on this site.

What I want to do is establish a remote connection to the omc server and I'm struggling with the Corba InitRef syntax. Now, before I go on trying to figure this out, I wanted to make sure that the OMC server will support it.

My guess is that it should, but a confirmation would be appreciated.
Also, if somebody knows the right CORBA syntax + code snipped to establish a remote corba interface I would appreciate that. The Corba documentation is rather cryptic and I'm running out of time at this point to figure this out.

Here's what I have as my function to establish the local corba connection (this is a modification of OMC example code). It assumes that the omc server is running and has created an IOR file in a local temporary file     at (tempdir + "\\" + "openmodelica.objid").

def initiateCorbaOMCConnection():
    """Establish a local connection to the OMC Corba interface.
    Outputs:
        omc =  omc connection object
    """
    host='localhost'
    port ='0'
    corbaString = "mico-local-orb=corbaloc::%s:%s/" % (host, port)
    #print corbaString
    orb = CORBA.ORB_init(["-ORBInitRef",corbaString], CORBA.ORB_ID)
   
    # getting the TEMP variable
    tempdir = os.environ['TEMP']
    omc_objid_file = tempdir + "\\" + "openmodelica.objid"
   
   
    omc_corba_uri= "file:///" + omc_objid_file

    # See if the omc server is running
    if os.path.isfile(omc_objid_file):
        print "OMC Server is up and running at " + omc_corba_uri + "\n"
    else:
        raise Exception("OMC Server is down. Please start it! Exiting")
        #print "OMC Server is down. Please start it! Exiting \n"
        #sys.exit(2)
   
    objid_file=open(omc_objid_file)
    ior = objid_file.readline()
    objid_file.close()
   
    mico_obj = orb.resolve_initial_references("RootPOA")
   
    # Calling string_to_object
    print "URI of the OMC server: " + ior
    obj = orb.string_to_object(ior)
    omc = obj._narrow(_GlobalIDL.OmcCommunication)
   
    if omc is None:
        raise Exception("Failed to connect to OMC Server. Object reference is not an OmcCommunication")
        #sys.exit(1)
    return omc




Kind regards

Chahé