llvm-gcc-4.2/libjava/classpath/org/omg/CORBA/ServerRequest.java

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package org.omg.CORBA;

/**
 * This class was expected to be part of the dynamic skeleton interface,
 * but it is almost never used in the code, generated by IDL to java compiler.
 * The recent tendention is to skip the request step, reading the method
 * arguments from the CDR input stream directly. The supplementing class
 * {@link DynamicImplementation} has already been deprecated in java 1.2
 * version.
 *
 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
 */
public abstract class ServerRequest
{
  /**
   * Get the context information.
   */
  public abstract Context ctx();

  /**
   * Should return the name of the operation (method) being invoked.
   * Following the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
   * get functionality.
   *
   * @return the name of the operation being invoked. The object attribute
   * access operations are called _get_<attribute_name>
   * and _set_<attribute_name>.
   *
   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
   */
  public String operation()
  {
    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  }

  /**
   * Should specify the method parameter types and retrieve the
   * values that must be passed to the method being called. Following
   * the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
   * get functionality.
   *
   * @param args the method parameters.
   *
   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
   */
  public void arguments(NVList args)
  {
    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  }

  /**
   * Should specify the return value for the call. Following
   * the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
   * get functionality.
   *
   * @param result the return value.
   *
   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
   */
  public void set_result(Any result)
  {
    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  }

  /**
   * Should set the exception that has been thrown during
   * the method invocation. Following the 1.4 specification, it does not,
   * and must be overridden to get functionality.
   *
   * @param exc the Any, holding the exception.
   *
   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
   */
  public void set_exception(Any exc)
  {
    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  }

  /**
   * This method is deprecated, {@link #set_result} (same parameter).
   *
   * @deprecated since 1.2
   *
   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
   */
  public void result(Any r)
  {
    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  }

  /**
   * This method is deprecated, use {@link #set_exception} (same parameter).
   *
   * @deprecated since 1.2.
   *
   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
   */
  public void except(Any exc)
  {
    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  }

  /**
   * This method is deprecated, use {@link #arguments} (same parameter).
   *
   * @deprecated since 1.2
   *
   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
   */
  public void params(NVList args)
  {
    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  }

  /**
   * This method is deprecated, use {@link #operation} (same parameter).
   *
   * @deprecated since 1.2
   *
   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
   */
  public String op_name()
  {
    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  }
}