/*
* @(#)ValueHandler.java 1.15 05/11/17
*
* Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
* SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
*/
/*
* Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
* RMI-IIOP v1.0
* Copyright IBM Corp. 1998 1999 All Rights Reserved
*
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*/
package javax.rmi.CORBA;
/**
* Defines methods which allow serialization of Java objects
* to and from GIOP streams.
**/
public interface ValueHandler {
/**
* Writes a value to the stream using Java semantics.
* @param out the stream to write the value to.
* @param value the value to be written to the stream.
**/
void writeValue(org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream out,
java.io.Serializable value);
/**
* Reads a value from the stream using Java semantics.
* @param in the stream to read the value from.
* @param offset the current position in the input stream.
* @param clz the type of the value to be read in.
* @param repositoryID the RepositoryId of the value to be read in.
* @param sender the sending context runtime codebase.
* @return the value read from the stream.
**/
java.io.Serializable readValue(org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream in,
int offset,
java.lang.Class clz,
String repositoryID,
org.omg.SendingContext.RunTime sender);
/**
* Returns the CORBA RepositoryId for the given Java class.
* @param clz a Java class.
* @return the CORBA RepositoryId for the class.
**/
java.lang.String getRMIRepositoryID(java.lang.Class clz);
/**
* Indicates whether the given class performs custom or
* default marshaling.
* @param clz the class to test for custom marshaling.
* @return <code>true</code> if the class performs custom marshaling, <code>false</code>
* if it does not.
**/
boolean isCustomMarshaled(java.lang.Class clz);
/**
* Returns the CodeBase for this ValueHandler. This is used by
* the ORB runtime. The server sends the service context containing
* the IOR for this CodeBase on the first GIOP reply. The client
* does the same on the first GIOP request.
* @return the SendingContext.CodeBase of this ValueHandler.
**/
org.omg.SendingContext.RunTime getRunTimeCodeBase();
/**
* If the value contains a <code>writeReplace</code> method then the result
* is returned. Otherwise, the value itself is returned.
* @param value the value to be marshaled.
* @return the true value to marshal on the wire.
**/
java.io.Serializable writeReplace(java.io.Serializable value);
}