001/* StringNameHelper.java --
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037
038
039package org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtPackage;
040
041import gnu.CORBA.OrbRestricted;
042
043import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
044import org.omg.CORBA.TypeCode;
045import org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream;
046import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream;
047
048/**
049 * Helper operations for the string name.
050 * The string name is directly mapped into java String.
051 * There is no separate "String name" class in the implementation.
052 *
053 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
054 */
055public abstract class StringNameHelper
056{
057  /**
058   * The string name repository id.
059   */
060  private static String _id =
061    "IDL:omg.org/CosNaming/NamingContextExt/StringName:1.0";
062
063  /**
064   * Just extracts string from this {@link Any}.
065   */
066  public static String extract(Any a)
067  {
068    return a.extract_string();
069  }
070
071  /**
072   * Get repository id.
073   */
074  public static String id()
075  {
076    return _id;
077  }
078
079  /**
080   * Just inserts string into this {@link Any}.
081   */
082  public static void insert(Any a, String that)
083  {
084    a.insert_string(that);
085  }
086
087  /**
088   * Delegates functionality to {@link InputStream#read_string()}.
089   */
090  public static String read(InputStream istream)
091  {
092    return istream.read_string();
093  }
094
095  /**
096   * Return the "StringName", alias of String, typecode.
097   */
098  public static TypeCode type()
099  {
100    TypeCode typeCode;
101    typeCode = OrbRestricted.Singleton.create_string_tc(0);
102    typeCode = OrbRestricted.Singleton.create_alias_tc(id(), "StringName", typeCode);
103    return typeCode;
104  }
105
106  /**
107   * Delegates functionality to {@link OutputStream#write_string}.
108   */
109  public static void write(OutputStream ostream, String value)
110  {
111    ostream.write_string(value);
112  }
113}