any
any
Module
any
Module summary
the corba any type
Description
This module contains functions that gives an interface to the CORBA any type.
Note that the any
interface in orber does not contain a destroy function because the any type is represented as an Erlang record and therefor will be removed by the garbage collector when not in use.
The type TC
used below describes an IDL type and is a tuple according to the to the Erlang language mapping.
The type Any
used below is defined as:
-record(any, {typecode, value}).
where typecode
is a TC tuple and value
is an Erlang term of the type defined by the typecode field.