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package org.omg.IOP;

import gnu.CORBA.OrbRestricted;

import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
import org.omg.CORBA.BAD_OPERATION;
import org.omg.CORBA.ORB;
import org.omg.CORBA.TCKind;
import org.omg.CORBA.TypeCode;
import org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream;
import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream;

/**
* A helper operations for th Component id. A Component Id is an integer
* constant and needs no helper, but the one is included to
* to facilitate the automated code handling.
*
* @specnote In this implementation, this class is not in use. Its "logical"
* place is the read/write methods of the TaggedComponentHelper, to handle the
* first member (int) of the record of the Tagged Component.
*
* @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
*/
public abstract class ComponentIdHelper
{
  /**
   * Create the ComponentId typecode (alias of CORBA ulong, named "ComponentId".
   */
  public static TypeCode type()
  {
    ORB orb = OrbRestricted.Singleton;
    return orb.create_alias_tc("IDL:omg.org/IOP/ComponentId:1.0",
                               "ComponentId",
                               orb.get_primitive_tc(TCKind.tk_ulong));
  }

  /**
  * Insert the int into the given Any.
  */
  public static void insert(Any any, int that)
  {
    any.insert_ulong(that);
  }

  /**
   * Extract the int from given Any.
   *
   * @throws BAD_OPERATION if the passed Any does not contain int.
   */
  public static int extract(Any any)
  {
    return any.extract_ulong();
  }

  /**
   * Get the int repository id.
   *
   * @return "IDL:omg.org/IOP/ComponentId:1.0", always.
   */
  public static String id()
  {
    return "IDL:omg.org/IOP/ComponentId:1.0";
  }

  /**
   * Read the ComponentId from the CDR intput stream.
   *
   * @param input a org.omg.CORBA.portable stream to read from.
   */
  public static int read(InputStream input)
  {
    return input.read_ulong();
  }

  /**
   * Write the ComponentId to the CDR output stream (as int).
   *
   * @param output a org.omg.CORBA.portable stream stream to write into.
   * @param value a value to write.
   */
  public static void write(OutputStream output, int value)
  {
    output.write_ulong(value);
  }
}