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037    
038    
039    package org.omg.CORBA;
040    
041    import org.omg.CORBA.DynAnyPackage.InvalidSeq;
042    
043    /**
044     * Represents the {@link DynAny}, holding the CORBA structure (record
045     * with the named fields). The internal reference, described in
046     * {@link DynAny#current_component()}, iterates over the fields of the
047     * structure.
048     *
049     * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynStruct}
050     *
051     * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
052     */
053    public interface DynStruct
054      extends DynAny
055    {
056    /**
057     * Get the kind of the structure field that would be returned by
058     * {@link DynAny#current_component()}.
059     *
060     * @return the kind of the structure field.
061     */
062      TCKind current_member_kind();
063    
064      /**
065       * Get the name of the structure field that would be returned by
066       * {@link DynAny#current_component()}.
067       *
068       * @return the name of the structure field.
069       */
070      String current_member_name();
071    
072      /**
073       * Get all fields of the structure in the array of the named values,
074       * holding name, repository id and value of the associated field.
075       *
076       * @return members the array of the named values,
077       * representing the structure fields.
078       */
079      NameValuePair[] get_members();
080    
081      /**
082       * Set all fields of this structure by name.
083       *
084       * @param members the array of the named values,
085       * representing the structure fields.
086       *
087       * @throws InvalidSeq if the passed argument is invalid.
088       */
089      void set_members(NameValuePair[] members)
090                throws InvalidSeq;
091    }