Source for org.omg.IOP.CodecOperations

   1: /* CodecOperations.java --
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  37: 
  38: 
  39: package org.omg.IOP;
  40: 
  41: import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
  42: import org.omg.CORBA.TypeCode;
  43: import org.omg.IOP.CodecPackage.FormatMismatch;
  44: import org.omg.IOP.CodecPackage.InvalidTypeForEncoding;
  45: import org.omg.IOP.CodecPackage.TypeMismatch;
  46: 
  47: /**
  48:  * Defines the operations, applicable to
  49:  * the Codec.
  50:  *
  51:  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  52:  */
  53: public interface CodecOperations
  54: {
  55:   /**
  56:    * Encode the value, stored inside the given {@link Any}, into array of
  57:    * bytes. The returned byte array contains the data structure typecode,
  58:    * followed by the data structure itself.
  59:    *
  60:    * @param that the {@link Any}, containing the data structure, required to
  61:    * encode.
  62:    *
  63:    * @return the array of bytes, containing the encoded data structure.
  64:    *
  65:    * @throws InvalidTypeForEncoding if the data structure is not supported
  66:    * by this {@link Codec} (wide char and wide string are not supported
  67:    * by ENCODING_CDR_ENCAPS v 1.0).
  68:    *
  69:    * @see #decode(byte[])
  70:    */
  71:   byte[] encode(Any that)
  72:          throws InvalidTypeForEncoding;
  73: 
  74:   /**
  75:    * Decode the given array of bytes and return the decoded value, inserted
  76:    * into {@link Any}. This methods expects that the byte array contains
  77:    * the CDR-encoded data structure {@link TypeCode}, followed by the data
  78:    * structure itself.
  79:    *
  80:    * @param them an array of bytes to decode.
  81:    * @return the {@link Any}, containing the decoded structure. The structure
  82:    * can be extracted from the Any with the appropriate helper.
  83:    *
  84:    * @throws FormatMismatch on the invalid structure of the byte array.
  85:    *
  86:    * @see #encode(Any)
  87:    */
  88:   Any decode(byte[] them)
  89:       throws FormatMismatch;
  90: 
  91:   /**
  92:   * Encode the value (without the typecode), stored in the passed {@link Any},
  93:   * into the given byte array.
  94:   *
  95:   * @param that_value the {@link Any}, holding the value to encode.
  96:   * @return the array, containing the encoded value alone (no preceeding
  97:   * typecode).
  98:   *
  99:   * @see #decode_value(byte[], TypeCode)
 100:   */
 101:   byte[] encode_value(Any that_value)
 102:                throws InvalidTypeForEncoding;
 103: 
 104:   /**
 105:    * Decode the given array of bytes, supposing that they contain the
 106:    * given data structure, and return the decoded value.
 107:    *
 108:    * @param them the array of bytes to decode. Should contain the data type,
 109:    * matching the structure, defined in the <code>type</code> parameter.
 110:    * Does not contain the typecode itself.
 111:    *
 112:    * @param type the typecode of the data structure, stored in the byte
 113:    * array.
 114:    *
 115:    * @return the {@link Any}, containing the decoded structure. The
 116:    * structure can be extracted from the Any with the appropriate helper.
 117:    *
 118:    * @throws FormatMismatch on the invalid structure of the byte array.
 119:    * @throws TypeMismatch if discovered that the the byte array defines a
 120:    * different structure.
 121:    *
 122:    * @see #encode_value(Any)
 123:    */
 124:   Any decode_value(byte[] them, TypeCode type)
 125:             throws FormatMismatch, TypeMismatch;