001 /* DynFixedOperations.java --
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036
037
038 package org.omg.DynamicAny;
039
040 import org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyPackage.InvalidValue;
041 import org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyPackage.TypeMismatch;
042
043 /**
044 * Defines operations, applicable for DynAny, holding CORBA <code>fixed</code>.
045 * These operations take and return this data type in its string representation.
046 *
047 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
048 */
049 public interface DynFixedOperations
050 extends DynAnyOperations
051 {
052 /**
053 * Get the value of the enclosed DynFixed, as string.
054 */
055 String get_value();
056
057 /**
058 * Set the value of the enclosed DynFixed, from string.
059 *
060 * @param fixed_value the value to set.
061 *
062 * @throws TypeMismatch if the passed string cannot be parsed into CORBA
063 * <code>fixed</code>. The valid string can only contain digits, decimal
064 * point and optional leading and trailing whitespace.
065 *
066 * @return true if the passed value can be represented without the loss of
067 * precision, false if some fractional digits were truncated.
068 */
069 boolean set_value(String fixed_value)
070 throws TypeMismatch, InvalidValue;
071 }