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package gnu.classpath.tools.giop.nameservice;

import java.io.File;

import org.omg.CORBA.ORB;
import org.omg.CORBA.Object;

/**
 * The persistent context naming map for the persistent naming service. 
 * 
 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
 */
public class PersistentContextMap extends PersistentMap
{
  /**
   * Create the persistent context map that stores information in the given
   * file.
   * 
   * @param an_orb the naming service ORB, used to obtain and produce the object
   *          stringified references.
   * @param mapFile the file, where the persistent information is stored.
   * @param reset if true, the previous naming data are discarded. If false
   *          (normally expected), they are loaded from the persistent memory to
   *          provide the persistence.
   */
  public PersistentContextMap(ORB an_orb, File mapFile, boolean reset)
  {
    super(an_orb, mapFile, reset);
  }

  /**
   * This method expects the PersistentContext as its parameter. The returned
   * description line is the name of the context parent folder.
   */
  protected String object_to_string(Object object)
  {
    PersistentContext pc = (PersistentContext) object;
    return pc.contextFolder.getAbsolutePath();
  }

  /**
   * This method restores the PersistenContext. The description line is
   * interpreted as the folder name, absolute path.
   */
  protected Object string_to_object(String description)
  {
    return new PersistentContext(orb, new File(description), reset);
  }
}