001/* DynEnum.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package org.omg.CORBA; 040 041 042/** 043 * Represents the dynamic enumeration, allowing to get/set the value by 044 * name or by position in the enumeration list. The CORBA enumeration 045 * can obtain one of the named values from the specified enumeration list. 046 * 047 * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynEnum} 048 * 049 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 050 */ 051public interface DynEnum 052 extends DynAny 053{ 054 /** 055 * Get the value of this object. 056 * @return the currently set value, one of the allowed values 057 * for this enumeration. 058 */ 059 String value_as_string(); 060 061 /** 062 * Set the value of this object. 063 * 064 * @param member the value to set, must be one of the allowed values for 065 * this enumeration. Otherwise the {@link SystemException} may be thrown. 066 */ 067 void value_as_string(String member); 068 069 /** 070 * Set the value of this object as the position inside the list of this 071 * enumeration. 072 * 073 * @param member the position of the enumeration value inside 074 * the enumeration list. Otherwise the {@link SystemException} may be thrown. 075 */ 076 void value_as_ulong(int member); 077 078 /** 079 * Get the value of this object as the position inside the list of this 080 * enumeration. 081 * 082 * @return member the position of the currently set enumeration value inside 083 * the enumeration list. 084 */ 085 int value_as_ulong(); 086}