codecoperations.java

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/* CodecOperations.java --
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package org.omg.IOP;

import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
import org.omg.CORBA.TypeCode;
import org.omg.IOP.CodecPackage.FormatMismatch;
import org.omg.IOP.CodecPackage.InvalidTypeForEncoding;
import org.omg.IOP.CodecPackage.TypeMismatch;

/**
 * Defines the operations, applicable to
 * the Codec.
 *
 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania ([e-mail])
 */
public interface CodecOperations
{
  /**
   * Encode the value, stored inside the given {@link Any}, into array of
   * bytes. The returned byte array contains the data structure typecode,
   * followed by the data structure itself.
   *
   * @param that the {@link Any}, containing the data structure, required to
   * encode.
   *
   * @return the array of bytes, containing the encoded data structure.
   *
   * @throws InvalidTypeForEncoding if the data structure is not supported
   * by this {@link Codec} (wide char and wide string are not supported
   * by ENCODING_CDR_ENCAPS v 1.0).
   *
   * @see decode(byte[])
   */
  byte[] encode(Any that)
         throws InvalidTypeForEncoding;

  /**
   * Decode the given array of bytes and return the decoded value, inserted
   * into {@link Any}. This methods expects that the byte array contains
   * the CDR-encoded data structure {@link TypeCode}, followed by the data
   * structure itself.
   *
   * @param them an array of bytes to decode.
   * @return the {@link Any}, containing the decoded structure. The structure
   * can be extracted from the Any with the appropriate helper.
   *
   * @throws FormatMismatch on the invalid structure of the byte array.
   *
   * @see encode(Any)
   */
  Any decode(byte[] them)
      throws FormatMismatch;

  /**
  * Encode the value (without the typecode), stored in the passed {@link Any},
  * into the given byte array.
  *
  * @param that_value the {@link Any}, holding the value to encode.
  * @return the array, containing the encoded value alone (no preceeding
  * typecode).
  *
  * @see decode_value(byte[], TypeCode)
  */
  byte[] encode_value(Any that_value)
               throws InvalidTypeForEncoding;

  /**
   * Decode the given array of bytes, supposing that they contain the
   * given data structure, and return the decoded value.
   *
   * @param them the array of bytes to decode. Should contain the data type,
   * matching the structure, defined in the <code>type</code> parameter.
   * Does not contain the typecode itself.
   *
   * @param type the typecode of the data structure, stored in the byte
   * array.
   *
   * @return the {@link Any}, containing the decoded structure. The
   * structure can be extracted from the Any with the appropriate helper.
   *
   * @throws FormatMismatch on the invalid structure of the byte array.
   * @throws TypeMismatch if discovered that the the byte array defines a
   * different structure.
   *
   * @see encode_value(Any)
   */
  Any decode_value(byte[] them, TypeCode type)
            throws FormatMismatch, TypeMismatch;
}