Occasionally, it can be useful for a servant locator to pass information between locate and finished. For example, the implementation of locate could choose among a number of alternative database backends, depending on load or availability and, to properly finalize state, the implementation of finished might need to know which database was used by locate. To support such scenarios, you can create a cookie in your locate implementation; the Ice run time passes the value of the cookie to finished after the operation invocation has completed. The cookie must derive from Ice::LocalObject and can contain whatever state and member functions are useful to your implementation:
C++
class MyCookie : public virtual Ice::LocalObject {
public:
// Whatever is useful here...
};
typedef IceUtil::Handle<MyCookie> MyCookiePtr;
class MyServantLocator : public virtual Ice::ServantLocator {
public:
virtual Ice::ObjectPtr locate(const Ice::Current& c, Ice::LocalObjectPtr& cookie)
{
// Code as before...
// Allocate and initialize a cookie.
//
cookie = new MyCookie(...);
return new PhoneEntryI;
}
virtual void finished(const Ice::Current& c, const Ice::ObjectPtr& servant,
const Ice::LocalObjectPtr& cookie)
{
// Down-cast cookie to actual type.
//
MyCookiePtr mc = MyCookiePtr::dynamicCast(cookie);
// Use information in cookie to clean up...
//
// ...
}
virtual void deactivate(const std::string& category);
};