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package org.omg.CORBA;

import gnu.CORBA.Minor;
import gnu.CORBA.OrbRestricted;

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

/**
* The helper operations for the
* CORBA object {@link Policy[]}.
*
* @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
*/
public abstract class PolicyListHelper
{
  /**
   * Get the type code of the {@link Policy[]}.
   */
  public static TypeCode type()
  {
     return OrbRestricted.Singleton.create_interface_tc(id(), "Policy[]");
  }

  /**
   * Insert the Policy[] into the given Any.
   *
   * @param any the Any to insert into.
   * @param that the Policy[] to insert.
   */
  public static void insert(Any any, Policy[] that)
  {
    any.insert_Streamable(new PolicyListHolder(that));
  }

  /**
   * Extract the Policy[] from given Any.
   *
   * @throws BAD_OPERATION if the passed Any does not contain Policy[].
   */
  public static Policy[] extract(Any any)
  {
    try
      {
        PolicyListHolder holds = (PolicyListHolder) any.extract_Streamable();
        return holds.value;
      }
    catch (ClassCastException ex)
      {
        BAD_OPERATION bad = new BAD_OPERATION("Policy[] expected");
        bad.minor = Minor.Any;
        throw bad;
      }
  }

  /**
   * Get the Policy[] repository id.
   *
   * @return "IDL:omg.org/CORBA/PolicyList:1.0", always.
   */
  public static String id()
  {
    return "IDL:omg.org/CORBA/PolicyList:1.0";
  }

  /**
   * Read the sequence of policies from the CDR intput stream.
   * The method follows usual CDR standards (an array length as
   * CORBA long, followed by the array members, if any).
   * The array members are read using {@link PolicyHelper}.
   *
   * @param input a org.omg.CORBA.portable stream to read from.
   */
  public static Policy[] read(InputStream input)
  {
    Policy[] p = new Policy[ input.read_long() ];
    for (int i = 0; i < p.length; i++)
      {
        p [ i ] = PolicyHelper.read(input);
      }
    return p;
  }

  /**
   * Write the sequence of policies from the CDR intput stream.
   * The method follows usual CDR standards (an array length as
   * CORBA long, followed by the array members, if any).
   * The array members are written using {@link PolicyHelper}.
   *
   * @param output a org.omg.CORBA.portable stream stream to write into.
   * @param value a policy array to write.
   */
  public static void write(OutputStream output, Policy[] value)
  {
    output.write_long(value.length);
    for (int i = 0; i < value.length; i++)
      {
        PolicyHelper.write(output, value [ i ]);
      }
  }
}