001 /* NamingContextExtOperations.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package org.omg.CosNaming; 040 041 import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtPackage.InvalidAddress; 042 import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.CannotProceed; 043 import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidName; 044 import 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 */ 054 public 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 }