001/* DynValueBoxOperation.java --
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037
038
039package org.omg.DynamicAny;
040
041import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
042import org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyPackage.InvalidValue;
043import org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyPackage.TypeMismatch;
044
045/**
046 * Defines operations, applicable for the boxed value type.
047 *
048 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
049 */
050public interface DynValueBoxOperations
051  extends DynValueCommonOperations, DynAnyOperations
052{
053  /**
054   * Get the return the content of the "box" as the DynAny.
055   *
056   * @throws InvalidValue if the object is holding <code>null</code>.
057   */
058  DynAny get_boxed_value_as_dyn_any()
059    throws InvalidValue;
060
061  /**
062   * Get the return the content of the "box" as the Any.
063   *
064   * @throws InvalidValue if the object is holding <code>null</code>.
065   */
066  Any get_boxed_value()
067    throws InvalidValue;
068
069  /**
070   * Set the value of the "box" from DynAny.
071   *
072   * @param boxIt a value to box.
073   *
074   * @throws TypeMismatch if the type is not matching the current boxed value
075   * type.
076   */
077  void set_boxed_value_as_dyn_any(DynAny boxIt)
078    throws TypeMismatch;
079
080  /**
081   * Set the value of the "box" as Any.
082   *
083   * @param boxIt a value to place into the box.
084   *
085   * @throws TypeMismatch if the type is not matching the current boxed value
086   * type.
087   */
088  void set_boxed_value(Any boxIt)
089    throws TypeMismatch;
090
091}