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1 /* RequestHeader.java -- The GIOP 1.0 request message.
2 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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39 package gnu.CORBA.GIOP;
41 import gnu.CORBA.CDR.AbstractCdrInput;
42 import gnu.CORBA.CDR.AbstractCdrOutput;
44 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
46 /**
47 * The GIOP request message.
49 * @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
51 public abstract class RequestHeader
52 extends ContextHandler
53 implements IDLEntity
55 /**
56 * The currently free request id. This field is incremented each time the new
57 * request header is constructed. To facilitate error detection, the first
58 * free id is equal to 0x01234567 (19088743).
60 private static int freeId = 0x01234567;
62 /**
63 * The operation being invoked (IDL scope name).
65 public String operation;
67 /**
68 * Identifies the object that is the target of the invocation.
70 public byte[] object_key;
72 /**
73 * A value identifying the requesting principal. Initialised into a single
74 * zero byte.
76 * @deprecated by CORBA 2.2.
78 public byte[] requesting_principal;
80 /**
81 * This is used to associate the reply message with the previous request
82 * message. Initialised each time by the different value, increasing form 1 to
83 * Integer.MAX_VALUE.
85 public int request_id = getNextId();
87 /**
88 * If true, the response from the server is expected.
90 protected boolean response_expected = true;
92 /**
93 * Get next free request id. The value of the free request id starts from
94 * 0x02345678, it is incremented each time this function is called and is
95 * reset to 1 after reaching Integer.MAX_VALUE.
97 * @return the next free request id.
99 public static synchronized int getNextId()
101 int f = freeId;
102 if (freeId == Integer.MAX_VALUE)
103 freeId = 1;
104 else
105 freeId++;
107 return f;
111 * Set if the sender expects any response to this message.
113 public abstract void setResponseExpected(boolean expected);
116 * Return true if response is expected.
118 public abstract boolean isResponseExpected();
121 * Converts an byte array into hexadecimal string values. Used in various
122 * toString() methods.
124 public String bytes(byte[] array)
126 StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
127 for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
129 b.append(Integer.toHexString(array[i] & 0xFF));
130 b.append(" ");
132 return b.toString();
136 * Reads the header from the stream.
138 * @param in a stream to read from.
140 public abstract void read(AbstractCdrInput in);
143 * Return a string representation.
145 public abstract String toString();
148 * Writes the header to the stream.
150 * @param out a stream to write into.
152 public abstract void write(AbstractCdrOutput out);