001 /* DynStruct.java --
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037
038
039 package org.omg.CORBA;
040
041 import org.omg.CORBA.DynAnyPackage.InvalidSeq;
042
043 /**
044 * Represents the {@link DynAny}, holding the CORBA structure (record
045 * with the named fields). The internal reference, described in
046 * {@link DynAny#current_component()}, iterates over the fields of the
047 * structure.
048 *
049 * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynStruct}
050 *
051 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
052 */
053 public interface DynStruct
054 extends DynAny
055 {
056 /**
057 * Get the kind of the structure field that would be returned by
058 * {@link DynAny#current_component()}.
059 *
060 * @return the kind of the structure field.
061 */
062 TCKind current_member_kind();
063
064 /**
065 * Get the name of the structure field that would be returned by
066 * {@link DynAny#current_component()}.
067 *
068 * @return the name of the structure field.
069 */
070 String current_member_name();
071
072 /**
073 * Get all fields of the structure in the array of the named values,
074 * holding name, repository id and value of the associated field.
075 *
076 * @return members the array of the named values,
077 * representing the structure fields.
078 */
079 NameValuePair[] get_members();
080
081 /**
082 * Set all fields of this structure by name.
083 *
084 * @param members the array of the named values,
085 * representing the structure fields.
086 *
087 * @throws InvalidSeq if the passed argument is invalid.
088 */
089 void set_members(NameValuePair[] members)
090 throws InvalidSeq;
091 }