95 lines
3.8 KiB
Java
95 lines
3.8 KiB
Java
/* ValueHandlerMultiFormat.java --
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Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Classpath.
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GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
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02110-1301 USA.
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Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
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making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and
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conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
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combination.
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As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
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permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
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executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
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modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
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terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
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independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
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module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from
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or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend
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this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
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obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
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exception statement from your version. */
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package javax.rmi.CORBA;
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import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream;
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import java.io.Serializable;
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/**
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* This interface extends the previous ValueHandler, supporting various stream
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* format versions. The {@link ValueHandler} can be casted into this interface
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* to access additional features.
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*
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* @since 1.5
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*
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* @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
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*/
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public interface ValueHandlerMultiFormat
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extends ValueHandler
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{
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/**
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* Get the maximal supported version for the value types, supported by
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* this value handler. The versions are integer numbers, the currently valid
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* values being 1 and 2.
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*
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* These two versions differ in how the additional data, stored by the
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* writeObject method, are encoded.
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* <ul>
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* <li> For version 1 (GNU Classpath default), that data (if present) are
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* written "as is". </li>
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* <li>For version 2, this data fragment is enclosed within a CDR custom
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* valuetype with no codebase and repository Id "RMI:org.omg.custom.<class>"
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* where <class> is the fully-qualified name of the class whose writeObject
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* method is being invoked. If the object does not write any data via
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* writeObject method, the null valuetype (0x0) must be written.</li>
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* </ul>
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* As the version number is part of the value type record, there is no need
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* to the format control during the reading.
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*
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* @return the maximal supported version.
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*/
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byte getMaximumStreamFormatVersion();
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/**
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* Write the value type to the output stream using the given format version.
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* The older method {@link ValueHandler#writeValue} always uses the version 1.
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*
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* @param output the stream, where the value should be written, must implement
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* {@link ValueOutputStream}.
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* @param value the value that should be written.
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* @param version the version of the format that must be used to write the
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* value.
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*
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* @throws BAD_PARAM if the version number is less than 1 or greater than the
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* maximal supported version.
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*/
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void writeValue(OutputStream output, Serializable value, byte version);
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}
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