gcc/libjava/classpath/gnu/CORBA/GIOP/RequestHeader.java

/* RequestHeader.java -- The GIOP 1.0 request message.
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package gnu.CORBA.GIOP;

import gnu.CORBA.CDR.cdrInput;
import gnu.CORBA.CDR.cdrOutput;


import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;

/**
 * The GIOP request message.
 *
 * @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
 */
public abstract class RequestHeader
  implements IDLEntity
{
  /**
   * The currently free request id. This field is incremented
   * each time the new request header is constructed. To facilitate
   * error detection, the first free id is equal to 0x01234567
   * (19088743).
   */
  private static int freeId = 0x01234567;

  /**
   * The operation being invoked (IDL scope name).
   */
  public String operation;

  /**
   * Identifies the object that is the target of the invocation.
   */
  public byte[] object_key;

  /**
   * A value identifying the requesting principal.
   * Initialised into a single zero byte.
   *
   * @deprecated by CORBA 2.2.
   */
  public byte[] requesting_principal;

  /**
   * Contains the ORB service data being passed. Initialised as the
   * zero size array by default.
   */
  public ServiceContext[] service_context = new ServiceContext[ 0 ];

  /**
   * This is used to associate the reply message with the
   * previous request message. Initialised each time by the
   * different value, increasing form 1 to Integer.MAX_VALUE.
   */
  public int request_id = getNextId();

  /**
   * If true, the response from the server is expected.
   */
  protected boolean response_expected = true;

  /**
   * Get next free request id. The value of the free request
   * id starts from 0x02345678, it is incremented each time this
   * function is called and is reset to 1 after reaching
   * Integer.MAX_VALUE.
   *
   * @return the next free request id.
   */
  public static synchronized int getNextId()
  {
    int f = freeId;
    if (freeId == Integer.MAX_VALUE)
      freeId = 1;
    else
      freeId++;

    return f;
  }

  /**
   * Set if the sender expects any response to this message.
   */
  public abstract void setResponseExpected(boolean expected);

  /**
   * Return true if response is expected.
   */
  public abstract boolean isResponseExpected();

  /**
   * Converts an byte array into hexadecimal string values.
   * Used in various toString() methods.
   */
  public String bytes(byte[] array)
  {
    StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
    for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
      {
        b.append(Integer.toHexString(array [ i ] & 0xFF));
        b.append(" ");
      }
    return b.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Reads the header from the stream.
   *
   * @param in a stream to read from.
   */
  public abstract void read(cdrInput in);

  /**
   * Return a string representation.
   */
  public abstract String toString();

  /**
   * Writes the header to the stream.
   *
   * @param out a stream to write into.
   */
  public abstract void write(cdrOutput out);
}