001/* BindingType.java --
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037
038
039package org.omg.CosNaming;
040
041import org.omg.CORBA.BAD_PARAM;
042
043/**
044 * Specifies the binding type (how the binding has been created).
045 *
046 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
047 */
048public class BindingType
049  implements org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity
050{
051  /**
052   * Use serialVersionUID (v1.4) for interoperability.
053   */
054  private static final long serialVersionUID = 3735105633408228513L;
055
056  /**
057   * This constant means that the binding has been created
058   * with operations  bind_context,  rebind_context or
059   * bind_new_context.
060   */
061  public static final int _ncontext = 1;
062
063  /**
064   * This constant means that the binding has been created by the
065   * means, different from the listed in {@link #_ncontext} description.
066   */
067  public static final int _nobject = 0;
068
069  /**
070   * This constant means that the binding has been created
071   * with operations  bind_context,  rebind_context or
072   * bind_new_context.
073   */
074  public static final BindingType ncontext = new BindingType(_ncontext);
075
076  /**
077   * This constant means that the binding has been created by the
078   * means, different from the listed in {@link #_ncontext} description.
079   */
080  public static final BindingType nobject = new BindingType(_nobject);
081
082  /**
083   * The binding type, defined by this instance.
084   */
085  private final int type;
086
087  /**
088   * Create the new binding type definition.
089   *
090   * @param value the binding type, normally either _nobject or
091   * _ncontext.
092   */
093  protected BindingType(int value)
094  {
095    type = value;
096  }
097
098  /**
099   * Get the binding type instance, matching its integer code.
100   *
101   * @param value the binding type code.
102   * @return the matching binding type instance.
103   *
104   * @throws BAD_PARAM if there is no matching binding type for
105   * the passed value.
106   */
107  public static BindingType from_int(int value)
108  {
109    switch (value)
110      {
111        case _nobject :
112          return nobject;
113
114        case _ncontext :
115          return ncontext;
116
117        default :
118          throw new BAD_PARAM("Unsupported binding type code " + value);
119      }
120  }
121
122  /**
123   * Return the integer code for this binding.
124   */
125  public int value()
126  {
127    return type;
128  }
129}