001 /* DynUnion.java --
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037
038
039 package org.omg.CORBA;
040
041
042 /**
043 * Represents the {@link DynAny}, holding the CORBA structure (variant record
044 * with the named fields). The internal reference, described in
045 * {@link DynAny#current_component()}, iterates over the fields of the
046 * member, stored in the union. The union always holds only one member;
047 * which one, depends from the value of the discriminator.
048 *
049 * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynUnion}
050 *
051 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
052 */
053 public interface DynUnion
054 extends DynAny
055 {
056 /**
057 * Returns the discriminator, defining, which set of fields is stored.
058 * @return the discriminator.
059 */
060 DynAny discriminator();
061
062 /**
063 * Returns the discriminator kind.
064 */
065 TCKind discriminator_kind();
066
067 /**
068 * Returns the member, stored in this union.
069 */
070 DynAny member();
071
072 /**
073 * Returns the kind of the member, stored in this union.
074 */
075 TCKind member_kind();
076
077 /**
078 * Returns the name of the currently focused member.
079 */
080 String member_name();
081
082 /**
083 * Renames the currently focused member.
084 *
085 * @param new_name the new name of the currently focused member.
086 */
087 void member_name(String new_name);
088
089 /**
090 * Checks if the discriminator of this union has been assigned a valid
091 * default value.
092 */
093 boolean set_as_default();
094
095 /**
096 * Determines if the discriminator of this union gets assigned a valid
097 * default value.
098 * @param assign_default
099 */
100 void set_as_default(boolean assign_default);
101 }