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037
038
039package org.omg.CORBA;
040
041import org.omg.CORBA.DynAnyPackage.InvalidSeq;
042
043/**
044 * Represents the {@link DynAny}, holding a value type.
045 *
046 * A value type is something between CORBA structure and CORBA object.
047 * Like CORBA object, it can have methods, supporting some IDL-defined
048 * interface. However, like structures, they are always local and passed by
049 * value, not by IOR reference.
050 *
051 * The value types can have both public and private members. They support
052 * inheritance. Value types can also be abstract.
053 *
054 * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynValue}
055 *
056 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
057 */
058public interface DynValue
059  extends DynAny, org.omg.CORBA.Object
060{
061  /**
062   * Get the kind of the member, pointed by the internal pointer.
063   *
064   * @return the kind of the member.
065   */
066  TCKind current_member_kind();
067
068  /**
069   * Get the name of the member, pointed by the internal pointer.
070   *
071   * @return the name of the member.
072   */
073  String current_member_name();
074
075  /**
076   * Get all members of the enclosed value type object.
077   * @return members, as an array of the name - value pairs.
078   */
079  NameValuePair[] get_members();
080
081  /**
082   * Set all members for the enclosed value type object.
083   *
084   * @param value an array of members to set.
085   *
086   * @throws InvalidSeq if the passed sequence is not valid.
087   */
088  void set_members(NameValuePair[] value)
089            throws InvalidSeq;
090}