ObjectKeyFactory.java

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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;

import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream ;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.ObjectKey ;
import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.ObjectKeyTemplate ;

/** Construct ObjectKey and ObjectKeyTemplate instances from their
 * CDR-marshalled representation.
 */
public interface ObjectKeyFactory
{
    /** Create an ObjectKey from its octet sequence representation.
     */
    ObjectKey create( byte[] key ) ;

    /** Create an ObjectKeyTemplate from its representation
     * in an InputStream.
     */
    ObjectKeyTemplate createTemplate( InputStream is ) ;
}