001    /* ServerRequest.java --
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037    
038    
039    package 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     */
051    public 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    }