001 /* ServerRequest.java --
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003
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037
038
039 package org.omg.CORBA;
040
041 /**
042 * This class was expected to be part of the dynamic skeleton interface,
043 * but it is almost never used in the code, generated by IDL to java compiler.
044 * The recent tendention is to skip the request step, reading the method
045 * arguments from the CDR input stream directly. The supplementing class
046 * {@link DynamicImplementation} has already been deprecated in java 1.2
047 * version.
048 *
049 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
050 */
051 public abstract class ServerRequest
052 {
053 /**
054 * Get the context information.
055 */
056 public abstract Context ctx();
057
058 /**
059 * Should return the name of the operation (method) being invoked.
060 * Following the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
061 * get functionality.
062 *
063 * @return the name of the operation being invoked. The object attribute
064 * access operations are called _get_<attribute_name>
065 * and _set_<attribute_name>.
066 *
067 * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
068 */
069 public String operation()
070 {
071 throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
072 }
073
074 /**
075 * Should specify the method parameter types and retrieve the
076 * values that must be passed to the method being called. Following
077 * the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
078 * get functionality.
079 *
080 * @param args the method parameters.
081 *
082 * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
083 */
084 public void arguments(NVList args)
085 {
086 throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
087 }
088
089 /**
090 * Should specify the return value for the call. Following
091 * the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
092 * get functionality.
093 *
094 * @param result the return value.
095 *
096 * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
097 */
098 public void set_result(Any result)
099 {
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 }