001 /* DynValueBoxOperation.java --
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037
038
039 package org.omg.DynamicAny;
040
041 import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
042 import org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyPackage.InvalidValue;
043 import org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyPackage.TypeMismatch;
044
045 /**
046 * Defines operations, applicable for the boxed value type.
047 *
048 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
049 */
050 public interface DynValueBoxOperations
051 extends DynValueCommonOperations, DynAnyOperations
052 {
053 /**
054 * Get the return the content of the "box" as the DynAny.
055 *
056 * @throws InvalidValue if the object is holding <code>null</code>.
057 */
058 DynAny get_boxed_value_as_dyn_any()
059 throws InvalidValue;
060
061 /**
062 * Get the return the content of the "box" as the Any.
063 *
064 * @throws InvalidValue if the object is holding <code>null</code>.
065 */
066 Any get_boxed_value()
067 throws InvalidValue;
068
069 /**
070 * Set the value of the "box" from DynAny.
071 *
072 * @param boxIt a value to box.
073 *
074 * @throws TypeMismatch if the type is not matching the current boxed value
075 * type.
076 */
077 void set_boxed_value_as_dyn_any(DynAny boxIt)
078 throws TypeMismatch;
079
080 /**
081 * Set the value of the "box" as Any.
082 *
083 * @param boxIt a value to place into the box.
084 *
085 * @throws TypeMismatch if the type is not matching the current boxed value
086 * type.
087 */
088 void set_boxed_value(Any boxIt)
089 throws TypeMismatch;
090
091 }