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	Information Service User's Guide

Chapter 9 Reading information with unknown structure

T his chapter describes how applications can read information from the IS repository when the information type is not known at compilation time.

The ISInfoAny class, described in this chapter, is deprecated. It's supported by the current IS version for compatibility purposes only and may be dropped in the following versions. Please use the ISInfoDynAny class (Section 10), which provides the same functionality in a more simple and user-friendly as well as offers some extra functionality.

Introduction

The IS API provides a possibility to read information objects whose types are not known at compilation time. This facility can be used to implement user interface applications, which will be able to display any information from the IS repository and don't need to be reprogrammed and recompiled when a new information types appear.

9.2 Using ISInfoAny class to print out information

9.3 Parsing content of the ISInfoAny object

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