001 /* BooleanHolder.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>boolean</code> that is mapped into 049 * java <code>boolean</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 BooleanHolder 059 implements Streamable 060 { 061 /** 062 * The default type code for this holder. 063 */ 064 private static final TypeCode t_boolean = 065 new PrimitiveTypeCode(TCKind.tk_boolean); 066 067 /** 068 * The <code>boolean</code> (CORBA <code>boolean</code>) value, 069 * held by this BooleanHolder. 070 */ 071 public boolean value; 072 073 /** 074 * Constructs an instance of BooleanHolder, 075 * initializing {@link #value} to <code>false</code>. 076 */ 077 public BooleanHolder() 078 { 079 } 080 081 /** 082 * Constructs an instance of BooleanHolder, 083 * initializing {@link #value} to the given <code>boolean</code>. 084 * 085 * @param initial_value a value that will be assigned to the 086 * {@link #value} field. 087 */ 088 public BooleanHolder(boolean initial_value) 089 { 090 value = initial_value; 091 } 092 093 /** 094 * Fill in the {@link #value } field by reading the required data 095 * from the given stream. For <code>boolean</code>, the functionality 096 * is delegated to 097 * {@link org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream#read_boolean}. 098 * 099 * @param input the input stream to read from. 100 */ 101 public void _read(InputStream input) 102 { 103 value = input.read_boolean(); 104 } 105 106 /** 107 * Returns the TypeCode, corresponding the CORBA type that is stored 108 * using this holder. 109 */ 110 public TypeCode _type() 111 { 112 return t_boolean; 113 } 114 115 /** 116 * Write the {@link #value } field to the given stream. 117 * For <code>boolean</code>, the functionality 118 * is delegated to 119 * {@link org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream#write_boolean(boolean) }. 120 * 121 * @param output the output stream to write into. 122 */ 123 public void _write(OutputStream output) 124 { 125 output.write_boolean(value); 126 } 127 }