001 /* DynUnion.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package org.omg.CORBA; 040 041 042 /** 043 * Represents the {@link DynAny}, holding the CORBA structure (variant record 044 * with the named fields). The internal reference, described in 045 * {@link DynAny#current_component()}, iterates over the fields of the 046 * member, stored in the union. The union always holds only one member; 047 * which one, depends from the value of the discriminator. 048 * 049 * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynUnion} 050 * 051 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 052 */ 053 public interface DynUnion 054 extends DynAny 055 { 056 /** 057 * Returns the discriminator, defining, which set of fields is stored. 058 * @return the discriminator. 059 */ 060 DynAny discriminator(); 061 062 /** 063 * Returns the discriminator kind. 064 */ 065 TCKind discriminator_kind(); 066 067 /** 068 * Returns the member, stored in this union. 069 */ 070 DynAny member(); 071 072 /** 073 * Returns the kind of the member, stored in this union. 074 */ 075 TCKind member_kind(); 076 077 /** 078 * Returns the name of the currently focused member. 079 */ 080 String member_name(); 081 082 /** 083 * Renames the currently focused member. 084 * 085 * @param new_name the new name of the currently focused member. 086 */ 087 void member_name(String new_name); 088 089 /** 090 * Checks if the discriminator of this union has been assigned a valid 091 * default value. 092 */ 093 boolean set_as_default(); 094 095 /** 096 * Determines if the discriminator of this union gets assigned a valid 097 * default value. 098 * @param assign_default 099 */ 100 void set_as_default(boolean assign_default); 101 }