001    /* NamingContextExtOperations.java --
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037    
038    
039    package org.omg.CosNaming;
040    
041    import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtPackage.InvalidAddress;
042    import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.CannotProceed;
043    import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidName;
044    import org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.NotFound;
045    
046    /**
047     * The extended naming context operations, defined since 1.4.
048     * The extensions are focused on providing the simplier way
049     * to use naming service with the string-based names and
050     * addresses.
051     *
052     * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
053     */
054    public interface NamingContextExtOperations
055      extends NamingContextOperations
056    {
057      /**
058       * Resolve the name, represented in the form of the string.
059       * The components of the composite name are separated by
060       * slash ('/').
061       *
062       * @param a_name_string the name to resolve.
063       * @return the object, referenced by the name.
064       */
065      org.omg.CORBA.Object resolve_str(String a_name_string)
066                                throws NotFound, CannotProceed, InvalidName;
067    
068      /**
069       * Converts the name, represented in the form of the string,
070       * into the older name representation (array of the name
071       * components).
072       *
073       * @param a_name_string the stringified form of the name.
074       *
075       * @return the component array form of the name.
076       *
077       * @throws InvalidName if the name is invalid.
078       */
079      NameComponent[] to_name(String a_name_string)
080                       throws InvalidName;
081    
082      /**
083       * Converts the older representation for the name (array
084       * of the name components) into the string form of the name.
085       *
086       * @param a_name the name, as an array of components.
087       *
088       * @return the same name as a string.
089       *
090       * @throws InvalidName if the name is invalid.
091       */
092      String to_string(NameComponent[] a_name)
093                throws InvalidName;
094    
095      String to_url(String an_address, String a_name_string)
096             throws InvalidAddress, InvalidName;
097    }