IDLNameTranslator.java

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package org.jboss.com.sun.corba.se.spi.presentation.rmi;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

/**
 * Translates between methods on an interface and RMI-IIOP encodings of those methods as names.
 */
public interface IDLNameTranslator
{
    /**
     * Get the interfaces that this IDLNameTranslator describes.
     */
    Class<?>[] getInterfaces();

    /**
     * Get all methods for this remote interface. The methods are returned in a canonical order, that is, they are
     * always in the same order for a particular interface.
     */
    Method[] getMethods();

    /**
     * Get the method from this IDLNameTranslator's interfaces that corresponds to the mangled name idlName. Returns
     * null if there is no matching method.
     */
    Method getMethod(String idlName);

    /**
     * Get the mangled name that corresponds to the given method on this IDLNameTranslator's interface. Returns null if
     * there is no matching name.
     */
    String getIDLName(Method method);
}