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package org.omg.IOP;

import org.omg.CORBA.portable.Streamable;
import org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream;
import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream;

 /**
 * A holder for the structure {@link TaggedComponent}.
 *
* @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
 */
public final class TaggedComponentHolder
  implements Streamable
{
  /**
   * The stored TaggedComponent value.
   */
  public TaggedComponent value;

  /**
   * Create the unitialised instance, leaving the value field
   * with default <code>null</code> value.
   */
  public TaggedComponentHolder()
  {
  }  
  
  /**
   * Create the initialised instance.
   * @param initialValue the value that will be assigned to
   * the <code>value</code> field.
   */
  public TaggedComponentHolder(TaggedComponent initialValue)
  {
    value = initialValue;
  }

  /**
   * Fill in the {@link #value} by data from the CDR stream.
   *
   * @param input the org.omg.CORBA.portable stream to read. 
   */
  public void _read(InputStream input)
  {
    value = TaggedComponentHelper .read(input);
  }

  /**
   * Write the stored value into the CDR stream.
   * 
   * @param output the org.omg.CORBA.portable stream to write. 
   */
  public void _write(OutputStream output)
  {
    TaggedComponentHelper .write(output, value);
  }
  
  /**
   * Get the typecode of the TaggedComponent.
   */
  public org.omg.CORBA.TypeCode _type()
  {
    return TaggedComponentHelper. type();
  }
}