001/* NamingContextExtOperations.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package org.omg.CosNaming; 040 041import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtPackage.InvalidAddress; 042import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.CannotProceed; 043import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidName; 044import 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 */ 054public 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}