Import IDL-Interfaces from COM-Project

[stefrauc]

Hi,
I would like to import Interfaces from an COM/ATL project.
I already tried the IDL-import from the MDG/Corba plugin but it fails, when the first "[" occurs.
My interfaces look like this:

[
object,
uuid(713C3AF0-6F71-4CF1-9079-84AA8C986B71),
dual,
nonextensible,
helpstring("IGenericBase-Schnittstelle"),
pointer_default(unique)
]
interface IGenericBase : IDispatch{
[propget, id(1), helpstring("property ID")] HRESULT ID([out, retval] BSTR* pVal);

[propget, id(2), helpstring("property Name")] HRESULT Name([out, retval] BSTR* pVal);
[propput, id(2), helpstring("property Name")] HRESULT Name([in] BSTR newVal);
[propget, id(3), helpstring("property Updated")] HRESULT Updated([out, retval] SHORT* pVal);
[propput, id(3), helpstring("property Updated")] HRESULT Updated([in] SHORT newVal);

};

Has anyone imported successfully the interfaces from an COM/ATL project into EA?

Best regards

Stefan Rauch

[«Midnight»]

Stefan,

Have you tried reformatting the source so that the leading "[" is not alone on the line? (I.e. remove any whitespace and carriage control before the following text.)

This is a bit of a long shot, but I think I remember a few cases where Sparx scripts had problems with 'orphan' pucntuation. The IDL import is an older utility, and may not have been tweaked recently.

It might also be necessary to do the same for the first trailing "]" but I'm not sure. I do not remember seeing anything about these, but perhaps testers have always done them in pairs, and have not encountered the second problem.

David

[stefrauc]

Hi David,
thanks for your advice. I tried it out and reformated my interfaces in this style:

[object,
uuid(713C3AF0-6F71-4CF1-9079-84AA8C986B71),
dual,
nonextensible,
helpstring("IGenericBase-Schnittstelle"),
pointer_default(unique)]
interface IGenericBase : IDispatch{
[propget, id(1), helpstring("property ID")] HRESULT ID([out, retval] BSTR* pVal);

[propget, id(2), helpstring("property Name")] HRESULT Name([out, retval] BSTR* pVal);
[propput, id(2), helpstring("property Name")] HRESULT Name([in] BSTR newVal);
[propget, id(3), helpstring("property Updated")] HRESULT Updated([out, retval] SHORT* pVal);
[propput, id(3), helpstring("property Updated")] HRESULT Updated([in] SHORT newVal);

};

Unfortunately the aborted with the same error: Unexpected Symbol: [

Any more ideas?

best regards

[«Midnight»]

None at all, I'm afraid.

Is there anything you can use to prefix the first line. I don't think a comment would work, but who knows.

Other than that, do a detailed read of the documentation, and look at the Sparx site for a white paper on this. Sparx has recently claimed that the CORBA (and thus IDL) import still works, but it might be something very sensitive about how you use it.

[Eve]

The CORBA addin and technology only supports CORBA IDL, not COM IDL.

[fgodoy]

Hi,

Can EA import COM IDL like CORBA IDL??

Tks a lot.

[binishpeter]

I had the same problem , I resolved by renaming the .idl to .cs and imported it

still EA wont recognize "coclass" and "library" , they needs to be changes to "class" and "namespace" , if EA  or someone could write an Add-In for this could be useful