001/* AnySeqHelper.java --
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037
038
039package org.omg.DynamicAny;
040
041import gnu.CORBA.OrbRestricted;
042
043import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
044import org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHolder;
045import org.omg.CORBA.ORB;
046import org.omg.CORBA.TCKind;
047import org.omg.CORBA.TypeCode;
048import org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream;
049import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream;
050
051/**
052 * A helper operations for the array of {@link Any}. This class shares
053 * the same {@link AnySeqHolder} as the {@link org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper}.
054 *
055 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
056 */
057public abstract class AnySeqHelper
058{
059  /**
060   * Delegates call to {@link org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper#extract}.
061   */
062  public static Any[] extract(Any any)
063  {
064    return org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper.extract(any);
065  }
066
067  /**
068   * Get the AnySeq repository id.
069   *
070   * @return "IDL:omg.org/DynamicAny/AnySeq:1.0", always.
071   */
072  public static String id()
073  {
074    return "IDL:omg.org/DynamicAny/AnySeq:1.0";
075  }
076
077  /**
078   * Delegates call to {@link org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper#insert}.
079   */
080  public static void insert(Any any, Any[] those)
081  {
082    org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper.insert(any, those);
083  }
084
085  /**
086   * Delegates call to {@link org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper#read}.
087   *
088   * @param input a org.omg.CORBA.portable stream to read from.
089   */
090  public static Any[] read(InputStream input)
091  {
092    return org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper.read(input);
093  }
094
095  /**
096   * Get the typecode as officially defined for this helper.
097   *
098   * @return alias of unbounded sequence of Any's, named AnySeq,
099   * with the id, returned by {@link #id()}.
100   */
101  public static TypeCode type()
102  {
103    ORB orb = OrbRestricted.Singleton;
104    TypeCode t =
105      orb.create_sequence_tc(0, orb.get_primitive_tc(TCKind.tk_any));
106    return orb.create_alias_tc(id(), "AnySeq", t);
107  }
108
109  /**
110   * Delegates call to {@link org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper#write}.
111   */
112  public static void write(OutputStream output, Any[] value)
113  {
114    org.omg.CORBA.AnySeqHelper.write(output, value);
115  }
116}