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MICO2.3.13 corba 环境平台

Custom marshalling allows you to choose your own "on-the-wire" representation
of your valuetype. You request custom marshalling by prefixing your valuetype
declaration in the IDL file with the keyword "custom":

custom valuetype MyCustomValue {
  // members as usual
};

Instead of marshalling each member using the default marshalling algorithm,
the ORB invokes the methods "marshal" and "unmarshal" on your valuetype that
you have to implement.

`marshal' receives a CORBA::DataOutputStream parameter that offers to write
a number of basic types (see mico/include/mico/valuetype.idl). On the re-
ceiving end, `demarshal' must extract the same data in the same order.

This mechanism could be useful if your valuetype could be transmitted in a
more efficient manner than the default of marshalling each data member, or
if data must be represented in a certain way using a legacy system.

In this example, this is demonstrated by writing and reading a certain
sequence of data. For a custom valuetype, `_copy_value()' must invoke the
custom marshalling routines too, and this is what the `test' program checks
for. This example does not make a lot of sense otherwise.