[jacorb-developer] CORBA Any Serialization and Deserialization

[Chun Tat David Chu]

Hi All,

I am currently using JacORB 3.2.  I have a requirement where I need to
serialize a CORBA Any, write it to a file and then read it back as a CORBA
Any.

For the CORBA Any Serialization, I wrote the following code:
    org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream in = anyData.create_input_stream();
    byte[] byteArray = IOUtils.toByteArray(in);
    FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(new File(msgDestination), byteArray);

When converting the byte array back to CORBA Any, I did the following:
    byte[] messageByte = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(message);
    org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream inputStream =
            new org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream(this.orb, messageByte);
    Any anyData = inputStream.read_any();

However I encountered an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that is thrown by
the read_any() method.
    java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 4
        at
org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream.read_octet(CDRInputStream.java:1105)
        at org.jacorb.orb.Any.read_value(Any.java:1202)
        at org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream.read_any(CDRInputStream.java:667)

That led me think that I probably did something wrong in the code.  Can
anyone lead me to the right path on serializing and deserializing CORBA Any?

Thanks,

David