001    /* VisibilityHelper.java --
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037    
038    
039    package org.omg.CORBA;
040    
041    import gnu.CORBA.OrbRestricted;
042    
043    import org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream;
044    import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream;
045    
046    /**
047     * A helper operations for a Visibility that is mapped into java and CORBA
048     * <code>short</code>. The Visibility normally takes one of the two values,
049     * {@link PUBLIC_MEMBER#value} or {@link PRIVATE_MEMBER#value}.
050     *
051     * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
052     */
053    public abstract class VisibilityHelper
054    {
055      /**
056       * Insert the Visibility into the given Any.
057       * Uses {@link Any#insert_short}.
058       */
059      public static void insert(Any any, short that)
060      {
061        any.insert_short(that);
062      }
063    
064      /**
065       * Extract the Visibility from the given Any.
066       * Uses {@link Any#extract_short}.
067       */
068      public static short extract(Any any)
069      {
070        return any.extract_short();
071      }
072    
073      /**
074       * Return an alias of short, named "Visibility".
075       */
076      public static TypeCode type()
077      {
078            TypeCode tshort =
079              OrbRestricted.Singleton.get_primitive_tc(TCKind.tk_short);
080            return
081              OrbRestricted.Singleton.create_alias_tc(id(), "Visibility", tshort);
082      }
083    
084      /**
085       * Get the Visibility repository id.
086       *
087       * @return "IDL:omg.org/CORBA/Visibility:1.0", always.
088       */
089      public static String id()
090      {
091        return "IDL:omg.org/CORBA/Visibility:1.0";
092      }
093    
094      /**
095       * Read the visibility value (as short) from the CDR intput stream.
096       *
097       * Uses {@link InputStream#read_short()}.
098       *
099       * @param istream a stream to read from.
100       */
101      public static short read(InputStream istream)
102      {
103        return istream.read_short();
104      }
105    
106      /**
107       * Write the visibility value (as short) to the CDR output stream.
108       *
109       * USes {@link OutputStream#write_short(short)}.
110       *
111       * @param ostream a stream to write into.
112       * @param value a value to write.
113       */
114      public static void write(OutputStream ostream, short value)
115      {
116        ostream.write_short(value);
117      }
118    }