libjava/classpath/org/omg/CORBA/ServerRequest.java

   1 /* ServerRequest.java --
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  37
  38
  39 package org.omg.CORBA;
  40
  41 /**
  42  * This class was expected to be part of the dynamic skeleton interface,
  43  * but it is almost never used in the code, generated by IDL to java compiler.
  44  * The recent tendention is to skip the request step, reading the method
  45  * arguments from the CDR input stream directly. The supplementing class
  46  * {@link DynamicImplementation} has already been deprecated in java 1.2
  47  * version.
  48  *
  49  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  50  */
  51 public abstract class ServerRequest
  52 {
  53   /**
  54    * Get the context information.
  55    */
  56   public abstract Context ctx();
  57
  58   /**
  59    * Should return the name of the operation (method) being invoked.
  60    * Following the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
  61    * get functionality.
  62    *
  63    * @return the name of the operation being invoked. The object attribute
  64    * access operations are called _get_&lt;attribute_name&gt;
  65    * and _set_&lt;attribute_name&gt;.
  66    *
  67    * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
  68    */
  69   public String operation()
  70   {
  71     throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  72   }
  73
  74   /**
  75    * Should specify the method parameter types and retrieve the
  76    * values that must be passed to the method being called. Following
  77    * the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
  78    * get functionality.
  79    *
  80    * @param args the method parameters.
  81    *
  82    * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
  83    */
  84   public void arguments(NVList args)
  85   {
  86     throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
  87   }
  88
  89   /**
  90    * Should specify the return value for the call. Following
  91    * the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
  92    * get functionality.
  93    *
  94    * @param result the return value.
  95    *
  96    * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
  97    */
  98   public void set_result(Any result)
  99   {
 100     throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
 101   }
 102
 103   /**
 104    * Should set the exception that has been thrown during
 105    * the method invocation. Following the 1.4 specification, it does not,
 106    * and must be overridden to get functionality.
 107    *
 108    * @param exc the Any, holding the exception.
 109    *
 110    * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
 111    */
 112   public void set_exception(Any exc)
 113   {
 114     throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
 115   }
 116
 117   /**
 118    * This method is deprecated, {@link #set_result} (same parameter).
 119    *
 120    * @deprecated since 1.2
 121    *
 122    * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
 123    */
 124   public void result(Any r)
 125   {
 126     throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
 127   }
 128
 129   /**
 130    * This method is deprecated, use {@link #set_exception} (same parameter).
 131    *
 132    * @deprecated since 1.2.
 133    *
 134    * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
 135    */
 136   public void except(Any exc)
 137   {
 138     throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
 139   }
 140
 141   /**
 142    * This method is deprecated, use {@link #arguments} (same parameter).
 143    *
 144    * @deprecated since 1.2
 145    *
 146    * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
 147    */
 148   public void params(NVList args)
 149   {
 150     throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
 151   }
 152
 153   /**
 154    * This method is deprecated, use {@link #operation} (same parameter).
 155    *
 156    * @deprecated since 1.2
 157    *
 158    * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
 159    */
 160   public String op_name()
 161   {
 162     throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
 163   }
 164 }