001 /* CharHolder.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 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.CORBA; 040 041 import gnu.CORBA.typecodes.PrimitiveTypeCode; 042 043 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream; 044 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream; 045 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.Streamable; 046 047 /** 048 * A holder for CORBA <code>char</code> that is mapped into 049 * java <code>char</code>. 050 * 051 * The holders have several application areas. The end user usually 052 * sees them implementing CORBA methods where the primitive type 053 * is passed by reference. While CORBA (or, for example, C) supports 054 * this, the java does not and a wrapper class is required. 055 * 056 * @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 057 */ 058 public final class CharHolder 059 implements Streamable 060 { 061 /** 062 * The default type code for this holder. 063 */ 064 private static final TypeCode t_char = new PrimitiveTypeCode(TCKind.tk_char); 065 066 /** 067 * The <code>char</code> (CORBA <code>char</code>) value, 068 * held by this CharHolder. 069 */ 070 public char value; 071 072 /** 073 * Constructs an instance of CharHolder, 074 * initializing {@link #value} to <code>0 </code>. 075 */ 076 public CharHolder() 077 { 078 } 079 080 /** 081 * Constructs an instance of CharHolder, 082 * initializing {@link #value} to the given <code>char</code>. 083 * 084 * @param initial_value a value that will be assigned to the 085 * {@link #value} field. 086 */ 087 public CharHolder(char initial_value) 088 { 089 value = initial_value; 090 } 091 092 /** 093 * Fill in the {@link #value } field by reading the required data 094 * from the given stream. For <code>char</code>, the functionality 095 * is delegated to 096 * {@link org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream#read_char}. 097 * 098 * @param input the input stream to read from. 099 */ 100 public void _read(InputStream input) 101 { 102 value = input.read_char(); 103 } 104 105 /** 106 * Returns the TypeCode, corresponding the CORBA type that is stored 107 * using this holder. 108 */ 109 public TypeCode _type() 110 { 111 return t_char; 112 } 113 114 /** 115 * Write the {@link #value } field to the given stream. 116 * For <code>char</code>, the functionality 117 * is delegated to 118 * {@link org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream#write_char(char) }. 119 * 120 * @param output the output stream to write into. 121 */ 122 public void _write(OutputStream output) 123 { 124 output.write_char(value); 125 } 126 }