#!/usr/bin/env python
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""" An example of a client using the naming service. """


# Standard/built-in modules.
import sys

# Fnorb modules.
from Fnorb.orb import CORBA

# Naming Service modules.
from Fnorb.cos.naming import CosNaming

# Stubs generated by 'fnidl'.
import Thermometer


def main(argv):
    """ Do it! """

    print 'Initialising the ORB...'

    # Initialise the ORB.
    orb = CORBA.ORB_init(argv, CORBA.ORB_ID)

    # Get a reference to the initial naming service context.
    ctx = CORBA.ORB_init().resolve_initial_references("NameService")

    # The 'pathname' of the context that holds the thermometer references (kind
    # of equivalent to '/dev/thermometers').
    path = [CosNaming.NameComponent('dev', ''),
	    CosNaming.NameComponent('thermometers', '')]

    # Lookup the temperatures of the thermometers in rooms 101-105, and then
    # force a lookup on a non-existent room "106"!
    for room in ["101", "102", "103", "104", "105", "106"]:
	# Create a naming service 'name' for the thermometer.
	name = path + [CosNaming.NameComponent(room, '')]

	try:
	    # Lookup the thermometer in the naming service.
	    thermometer = ctx.resolve(name)

	    # Make sure that the object is not a 'nil object reference'
	    # (represented in Python by the value 'None').
	    if thermometer is None:
		raise 'Nil object reference!'

	    # Make sure that the object implements the expected interface!
	    if not thermometer._is_a(CORBA.id(Thermometer.ThermometerIF)):
		raise 'This is not a Thermometer!'

	    # Get the temperature of the thermometer!
	    print 'Temperature in', room, 'is', thermometer._get_temperature()

	except CosNaming.NamingContext.NotFound:
	    print 'No thermometer in room', room

    return 0

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if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Do it!
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))

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