001 /* DynFixed.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package org.omg.CORBA; 040 041 import org.omg.CORBA.DynAnyPackage.InvalidValue; 042 043 /** 044 * Represents a CORBA <code>fixed</code>, allowing to get and set its value 045 * in the form of the binary representation. 046 * 047 * The format, described in CORBA specification, requires to store 048 * data in hexadecimal format, two digits per byte (oceted), most 049 * significant digit first. The last half-byte in the representation 050 * stores the sign, being 0xD for negative numbers and 0xC for 051 * zero and positive numbers. To have the even number of half bytes, 052 * 0x0 is appended to the beginning, if required. The position of the 053 * decimal point is not stored. 054 * 055 * @see gnu.CORBA.BigDecimalHelper 056 * 057 * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynFixed} 058 * 059 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 060 */ 061 public interface DynFixed 062 extends DynAny 063 { 064 /** 065 * Get the value of this DynFixed in the binary form. 066 * 067 * @return the binary representation, defined in the header comment. 068 */ 069 byte[] get_value(); 070 071 /** 072 * Sets the value of this DynFixed from the binary representation. 073 * 074 * @param a_value the byte array, representing a CORBA <code>fixed</code>, 075 * as defined in the header comment. 076 */ 077 void set_value(byte[] a_value) 078 throws InvalidValue; 079 }