Re: Question about returning values of COM method call by using luacom

["Jei-Wen Teng" <jeiwen.teng@...>]

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.

-- Jei-Wen Teng

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