1 /* DynEnum.java -- 2 Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3 4 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 5 6 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 9 any later version. 10 11 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 12 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 14 General Public License for more details. 15 16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 17 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 18 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 19 02110-1301 USA. 20 21 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 22 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 23 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 24 combination. 25 26 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 27 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 28 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 29 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 30 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 31 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 32 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 33 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 34 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 35 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 36 exception statement from your version. */ 37 38 39 package org.omg.CORBA; 40 41 42 /** 43 * Represents the dynamic enumeration, allowing to get/set the value by 44 * name or by position in the enumeration list. The CORBA enumeration 45 * can obtain one of the named values from the specified enumeration list. 46 * 47 * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynEnum} 48 * 49 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 50 */ 51 public interface DynEnum 52 extends DynAny 53 { 54 /** 55 * Get the value of this object. 56 * @return the currently set value, one of the allowed values 57 * for this enumeration. 58 */ value_as_string()59 String value_as_string(); 60 61 /** 62 * Set the value of this object. 63 * 64 * @param member the value to set, must be one of the allowed values for 65 * this enumeration. Otherwise the {@link SystemException} may be thrown. 66 */ value_as_string(String member)67 void value_as_string(String member); 68 69 /** 70 * Set the value of this object as the position inside the list of this 71 * enumeration. 72 * 73 * @param member the position of the enumeration value inside 74 * the enumeration list. Otherwise the {@link SystemException} may be thrown. 75 */ value_as_ulong(int member)76 void value_as_ulong(int member); 77 78 /** 79 * Get the value of this object as the position inside the list of this 80 * enumeration. 81 * 82 * @return member the position of the currently set enumeration value inside 83 * the enumeration list. 84 */ value_as_ulong()85 int value_as_ulong(); 86 } 87