Source for org.omg.PortableInterceptor.Current

   1: /* Current.java --
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  37: 
  38: 
  39: package org.omg.PortableInterceptor;
  40: 
  41: import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
  42: 
  43: /**
  44:  * <p>
  45:  * The portable interceptor Current (PICurrent) contains multiple slots where an
  46:  * interceptor can rememeber the request - specific values between subsequent
  47:  * calls of the interceptor methods. In multithreaded environment, it is not
  48:  * possible just to store such data in the interceptor object fields.
  49:  * </p>
  50:  * <p>
  51:  * On the client side, it is possible to set the initial slot values by
  52:  * modifying slots on the Current, returend by ORB.resolve_initial_references
  53:  * ("PICurrent"). The returned value is narrowed with the
  54:  * {@link CurrentHelper#narrow}. On the subsequent invocation, made from the
  55:  * same thread, the interceptors will see the initial slot values as they were
  56:  * set using this approach.
  57:  * </p>
  58:  * <p>
  59:  * There are no way to set the initial values for the server side interceptors,
  60:  * the default values (Any with typecode TCKind.tk_null) should be always
  61:  * assumed.
  62:  * </p>
  63:  * <p>
  64:  * Since an Interceptor is running in a thread, it is running with a thread
  65:  * context and there is a PICurrent on that context. If the Interceptor calls
  66:  * ORB.resolve_initial_references ("PICurrent"), it gets the PICurrent within
  67:  * its thread scope. This PICurrent is different than the request scope
  68:  * PICurrent that the Interceptor obtains via calls to the Client- or Server-
  69:  * RequestInfo object.
  70:  * </p>
  71:  * <p>
  72:  * On the client side the PICurrent can be used to detect the recursive
  73:  * invocations, performed by interceptors. If one of the interceptors makes call
  74:  * via the same ORB, this call is then showed to all interceptors, including the
  75:  * interceptor that made it. To avoid infinite recursion, the during each call
  76:  * this interceptor can set some "recursion flag" into one of the slots of the
  77:  * PICurrent. If the flag is set on the entry point, this indicates a recursive
  78:  * call of that request.
  79:  * </p>
  80:  */
  81: public interface Current extends CurrentOperations,
  82:   org.omg.CORBA.Current,
  83:   IDLEntity
  84: {