001/* NamingContextExtOperations.java --
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038
039package org.omg.CosNaming;
040
041import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtPackage.InvalidAddress;
042import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.CannotProceed;
043import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidName;
044import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.NotFound;
045
046/**
047 * The extended naming context operations, defined since 1.4.
048 * The extensions are focused on providing the simplier way
049 * to use naming service with the string-based names and
050 * addresses.
051 *
052 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
053 */
054public interface NamingContextExtOperations
055  extends NamingContextOperations
056{
057  /**
058   * Resolve the name, represented in the form of the string.
059   * The components of the composite name are separated by
060   * slash ('/').
061   *
062   * @param a_name_string the name to resolve.
063   * @return the object, referenced by the name.
064   */
065  org.omg.CORBA.Object resolve_str(String a_name_string)
066                            throws NotFound, CannotProceed, InvalidName;
067
068  /**
069   * Converts the name, represented in the form of the string,
070   * into the older name representation (array of the name
071   * components).
072   *
073   * @param a_name_string the stringified form of the name.
074   *
075   * @return the component array form of the name.
076   *
077   * @throws InvalidName if the name is invalid.
078   */
079  NameComponent[] to_name(String a_name_string)
080                   throws InvalidName;
081
082  /**
083   * Converts the older representation for the name (array
084   * of the name components) into the string form of the name.
085   *
086   * @param a_name the name, as an array of components.
087   *
088   * @return the same name as a string.
089   *
090   * @throws InvalidName if the name is invalid.
091   */
092  String to_string(NameComponent[] a_name)
093            throws InvalidName;
094
095  String to_url(String an_address, String a_name_string)
096         throws InvalidAddress, InvalidName;
097}