001/* DynUnion.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package 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 */ 053public 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}