Jei-Wen,
Take Ignacio’s advice. When crossing COM-apartments, either
TypeLibrary (ie: IDispatch) marshalling occurs, or a custom COM-proxy is used.
The only case where you could get violation of COM-based rules depends on the
COM object you are calling, how it’s implemented AND both the caller and
callee are in an MTA (probably using the Free-Threaded Marshaller). Otherwise
the values will get lost.
Even if your solution works on your machine, because you have
all the source, no guarantees it will work on a “clean” machine.
--Ken
From:
lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Jei-Wen Teng
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:00 PM
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: Question about returning values of COM method call by using
luacom
Hi,
I found another solution to my question.
I think this might be useful to other people who might
encounter the same problem so I post this by replying here.
Although the use of CreatObject() described in section 6.2
of LuaCOM's user manual is luacom_obj = luacom.CreateObject(ID,
creation_context, untyped), the use of untyped parameter seems never described
in the manual.
After tracing LuaCOM's source code of CreateObject(), it
seems that I can set untyped parameter as true to let LuaCOM treat the COM
object to be created as a generic one without typeinfo and then I can get the
value of EncodedData because all parameters are treated as [in, out].
It seems work in my case although I am not sure if this is
really an alternative solution.
2008/12/17 Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@inconcertcc.com>
Jei-Wen Teng wrote:
I am trying to call a COM method from Lua by using LuaCOM.
The signature is as follow:
HRESULT GetAPEncodedData(
VARIANT*
APName,
VARIANT*
Realm,
VARIANT*
EncodedData,
[out,
retval] long* pVal);
Directional attribute [in], [out] is not specified.
EncodedData is the parameter that this method will store its result in.
That is wrong, see below.
My question is:
1. Will LuaCOM return all the values of VARIANT* type parameters?
No, because when no directional attribute is present, [in]
is assumed [1]
2. If not, is there any way in LuaCOM to get the result
value of EncodedData?
Unless you can change your method declaration, or add a new
method with [in,out] parameters, you can't.
Also, you could create a new COM interface and wrap the calls to
GetAPEncodedData
However, by not specifying [in,out] and changing EncodedData you're relying on
not crossing apartments or worst, process boundaries. In the former, things may
work under certain circumstances. In the latter, they won't work at all.
Regards,
Ignacio Burgueño
[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367051(VS.85).aspx
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