/*
* Player Java Client 3 - XdrOpaque.java
* Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Radu Bogdan Rusu, Maxim Batalin
*
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/*
* Copyright (c) 1999, 2000
* Lehrstuhl fuer Prozessleittechnik (PLT), RWTH Aachen
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package javaclient3.xdr;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* Instances of the class <code>XdrOpaque</code> represent (de-)serializeable
* fixed-size opaque values, which are especially useful in cases where a result with only a
* single opaque value is expected from a remote function call or only a single
* opaque value parameter needs to be supplied.
*
* <p>Please note that this class is somewhat modelled after Java's primitive
* data type wrappers. As for these classes, the XDR data type wrapper classes
* follow the concept of values with no identity, so you are not allowed to
* change the value after you've created a value object.
*
* @version $Revision$ $Date$ $State$ $Locker$
* @author Harald Albrecht
*/
public class XdrOpaque implements XdrAble {
/**
* Constructs and initializes a new <code>XdrOpaque</code> object.
*/
public XdrOpaque(byte [] value) {
this.value = value;
}
/**
* Constructs and initializes a new <code>XdrOpaque</code> object given
* only the size of the opaque value.
*
* @param length size of opaque value.
*/
public XdrOpaque(int length) {
this.value = new byte[length];
}
/**
* Returns the value of this <code>XdrOpaque</code> object as a byte
* vector.
*
* @return The primitive <code>byte[]</code> value of this object.
*/
public byte [] opaqueValue() {
return this.value;
}
/**
* Encodes -- that is: serializes -- a XDR opaque into a XDR stream in
* compliance to RFC 1832.
*
* @throws OncRpcException if an ONC/RPC error occurs.
* @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs.
*/
public void xdrEncode(XdrEncodingStream xdr)
throws OncRpcException, IOException
{
xdr.xdrEncodeOpaque(value);
}
/**
* Decodes -- that is: deserializes -- a XDR opaque from a XDR stream in
* compliance to RFC 1832.
*
* @throws OncRpcException if an ONC/RPC error occurs.
* @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs.
*/
public void xdrDecode(XdrDecodingStream xdr)
throws OncRpcException, IOException
{
xdr.xdrDecodeOpaque(value);
}
/**
* The encapsulated opaque value itself.
*/
private byte [] value;
}
// End of XdrOpaque.java