- Added jacorb.interop.lax_null_string_encoding to allow handling of strings of size 0

\verb"jacorb.interop.lax_"

\verb"null_string_encoding" & Allow reading of 0 size strings. 

This can be useful for ORBs such as VisiBroker. & boolean & off \\

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# Some ORBs (e.g. Visibroker) do not correctly encode empty strings

# saving one byte on the paload.

# Turns this on if you run into strings with size 0

jacorb.interop.lax_null_string_encoding=off

    private boolean laxNullStringEncoding;

        laxNullStringEncoding =

            configuration.getAttributeAsBoolean("jacorb.interop.lax_null_string_encoding", false);

            if (laxNullStringEncoding && size == 0)

            {

                // Some ORBs wrongly encode empty string with a size 0

                return "";

            }

import org.omg.CORBA.MARSHAL;

    public void testFailOnNullEncodedString() throws Exception

    {

        byte[] codedText = {0,0,0,0};

        CDRInputStream stream = new CDRInputStream( orb, codedText );

        try {

            stream.read_string();

            fail("Null encoded string should have failed with an exception");

        } catch (MARSHAL e) {

            assertNotNull(e.getMessage());

            assertTrue("Not a MARSHALL exception: " + e.getMessage(), e.getMessage().matches("^.*invalid string size: 0.*$"));

        }

    }