1 /* ParameterMode.java -- 2 Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 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 package org.omg.CORBA; 39 40 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity; 41 42 import java.io.Serializable; 43 44 /** 45 * Defines the parameter modes (the ways in that a method parameter 46 * is used during invocation). 47 * 48 * In CORBA, a method parameter can pass the value (PARAM_IN), 49 * be used as a placeholder to return the value (PARAM_OUT) or 50 * both pass the data and be used as a placeholder to return the 51 * changed value (PARAM_INOUT). 52 * 53 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 54 */ 55 public class ParameterMode 56 implements Serializable, IDLEntity 57 { 58 /** 59 * Use serialVersionUID (v1.4) for interoperability. 60 */ 61 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1521598391932998229L; 62 63 /** 64 * This value means that the parameter is an IN parameter. 65 */ 66 public static final int _PARAM_IN = 0; 67 68 /** 69 * This value means that the parameter is an OUT parameter. 70 */ 71 public static final int _PARAM_OUT = 1; 72 73 /** 74 * This value means that the parameter is an INOUT parameter. 75 */ 76 public static final int _PARAM_INOUT = 2; 77 78 /** 79 * This value means that the parameter is an IN parameter. 80 */ 81 public static final ParameterMode PARAM_IN = new ParameterMode(_PARAM_IN); 82 83 /** 84 * This value means that the parameter is an OUT parameter. 85 */ 86 public static final ParameterMode PARAM_OUT = new ParameterMode(_PARAM_OUT); 87 88 /** 89 * This value means that the parameter is an INOUT parameter. 90 */ 91 public static final ParameterMode PARAM_INOUT = new ParameterMode(_PARAM_INOUT); 92 93 /** 94 * The value of this parameter mode instance. 95 */ 96 private final int value; 97 98 /** 99 * The conversion table. 100 */ 101 private static final ParameterMode[] table = 102 new ParameterMode[] { PARAM_IN, PARAM_OUT, PARAM_INOUT }; 103 104 /** 105 * Create an instance of the parameter mode with the given value. 106 */ ParameterMode(int a_value)107 protected ParameterMode(int a_value) 108 { 109 value = a_value; 110 } 111 112 /** 113 * Return the integer value code for the given parameter mode. 114 * 115 * @return 0 for PARAM_IN, 1 for PARAM_OUT, 3 for PARAM_INOUT. 116 */ value()117 public int value() 118 { 119 return value; 120 } 121 122 /** 123 * Get a parameter mode instance for the integer parameter mode code. 124 * 125 * @param p_mode a parameter mode (0..2). 126 * 127 * @return a corresponding parameter mode instance. 128 * 129 * @throws BAD_PARAM for the invalid parameter mode code. 130 */ from_int(int p_mode)131 public static ParameterMode from_int(int p_mode) 132 { 133 try 134 { 135 return table [ p_mode ]; 136 } 137 catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException ex) 138 { 139 throw new BAD_PARAM("Invalid parameter mode: " + p_mode); 140 } 141 } 142 } 143