/* BoxedValueHelper.java -- Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ package org.omg.CORBA.portable; import java.io.Serializable; /** * Provides a helper operations for the value type. * The value type may have its own helper, implementing * this interface. * * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) */ public interface BoxedValueHelper { /** * Get the repository id of this value type. * * @return a repository id. */ String get_id(); /** * Read this value type from the CDR stream. * * @param is a stream to read from. * * @return a loaded value type. */ Serializable read_value(InputStream istream); /** * Write this value type to the CDR stream. * * @param os a stream to write to. * @param value a value to write. */ void write_value(OutputStream ostream, Serializable value); }