001/* ServerRequest.java --
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037
038
039package org.omg.CORBA;
040
041/**
042 * This class was expected to be part of the dynamic skeleton interface,
043 * but it is almost never used in the code, generated by IDL to java compiler.
044 * The recent tendention is to skip the request step, reading the method
045 * arguments from the CDR input stream directly. The supplementing class
046 * {@link DynamicImplementation} has already been deprecated in java 1.2
047 * version.
048 *
049 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
050 */
051public abstract class ServerRequest
052{
053  /**
054   * Get the context information.
055   */
056  public abstract Context ctx();
057
058  /**
059   * Should return the name of the operation (method) being invoked.
060   * Following the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
061   * get functionality.
062   *
063   * @return the name of the operation being invoked. The object attribute
064   * access operations are called _get_<attribute_name>
065   * and _set_<attribute_name>.
066   *
067   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
068   */
069  public String operation()
070  {
071    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
072  }
073
074  /**
075   * Should specify the method parameter types and retrieve the
076   * values that must be passed to the method being called. Following
077   * the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
078   * get functionality.
079   *
080   * @param args the method parameters.
081   *
082   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
083   */
084  public void arguments(NVList args)
085  {
086    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
087  }
088
089  /**
090   * Should specify the return value for the call. Following
091   * the 1.4 specification, it does not, and must be overridden to
092   * get functionality.
093   *
094   * @param result the return value.
095   *
096   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
097   */
098  public void set_result(Any result)
099  {
100    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
101  }
102
103  /**
104   * Should set the exception that has been thrown during
105   * the method invocation. Following the 1.4 specification, it does not,
106   * and must be overridden to get functionality.
107   *
108   * @param exc the Any, holding the exception.
109   *
110   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
111   */
112  public void set_exception(Any exc)
113  {
114    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
115  }
116
117  /**
118   * This method is deprecated, {@link #set_result} (same parameter).
119   *
120   * @deprecated since 1.2
121   *
122   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
123   */
124  public void result(Any r)
125  {
126    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
127  }
128
129  /**
130   * This method is deprecated, use {@link #set_exception} (same parameter).
131   *
132   * @deprecated since 1.2.
133   *
134   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
135   */
136  public void except(Any exc)
137  {
138    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
139  }
140
141  /**
142   * This method is deprecated, use {@link #arguments} (same parameter).
143   *
144   * @deprecated since 1.2
145   *
146   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
147   */
148  public void params(NVList args)
149  {
150    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
151  }
152
153  /**
154   * This method is deprecated, use {@link #operation} (same parameter).
155   *
156   * @deprecated since 1.2
157   *
158   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
159   */
160  public String op_name()
161  {
162    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
163  }
164}