001 /* NamingContextExtOperations.java --
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037
038
039 package org.omg.CosNaming;
040
041 import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtPackage.InvalidAddress;
042 import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.CannotProceed;
043 import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidName;
044 import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.NotFound;
045
046 /**
047 * The extended naming context operations, defined since 1.4.
048 * The extensions are focused on providing the simplier way
049 * to use naming service with the string-based names and
050 * addresses.
051 *
052 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
053 */
054 public interface NamingContextExtOperations
055 extends NamingContextOperations
056 {
057 /**
058 * Resolve the name, represented in the form of the string.
059 * The components of the composite name are separated by
060 * slash ('/').
061 *
062 * @param a_name_string the name to resolve.
063 * @return the object, referenced by the name.
064 */
065 org.omg.CORBA.Object resolve_str(String a_name_string)
066 throws NotFound, CannotProceed, InvalidName;
067
068 /**
069 * Converts the name, represented in the form of the string,
070 * into the older name representation (array of the name
071 * components).
072 *
073 * @param a_name_string the stringified form of the name.
074 *
075 * @return the component array form of the name.
076 *
077 * @throws InvalidName if the name is invalid.
078 */
079 NameComponent[] to_name(String a_name_string)
080 throws InvalidName;
081
082 /**
083 * Converts the older representation for the name (array
084 * of the name components) into the string form of the name.
085 *
086 * @param a_name the name, as an array of components.
087 *
088 * @return the same name as a string.
089 *
090 * @throws InvalidName if the name is invalid.
091 */
092 String to_string(NameComponent[] a_name)
093 throws InvalidName;
094
095 String to_url(String an_address, String a_name_string)
096 throws InvalidAddress, InvalidName;
097 }