Implementing The Servant (Cont.)


// print out a prmopt, and read a message from the user. stores
// the message in 'message', and returns the length of the
// message. reads num_bytes from standard input and returns it.
CORBA::Long
HelloWorldImpl::readMessage(const char* prompt,
                            CORBA::String_out message)
{
    // print out a prompt.
    cout << (prompt ? prompt : "Input:") << flush;
    // read input from STDIN.
    char buf[1024];
    cin >> buf;
    // buf's contents is copied into 'message'.
    message = CORBA::string_dup(buf);
    cout << "Returning '" << message.ptr() << "'"
         << endl << flush;

    return strlen(buf);
}