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package org.omg.DynamicAny;

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

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

/**
 * A helper operations for the array of {@link NameValuePair}.
 *
 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
 */
public abstract class NameValuePairSeqHelper
{
  public static TypeCode type()
  {
    ORB orb = OrbRestricted.Singleton;
    TypeCode t = orb.create_sequence_tc(0, NameValuePairHelper.type());
    return orb.create_alias_tc(id(), "NameValuePairSeq", t);
  }

  /**
   * Insert the NameValuePairSeq into the given Any.
   * This method uses the NameValuePairSeqHolder.
   *
   * @param any the Any to insert into.
   * @param those the NameValuePair[] to insert.
   */
  public static void insert(Any any, NameValuePair[] those)
  {
    any.insert_Streamable(new NameValuePairSeqHolder(those));
  }

  /**
   * Extract the NameValuePairSeq from given Any.
   * This method uses the NameValuePairSeqHolder.
   *
   * @throws BAD_OPERATION if the passed Any does not contain NameValuePairSeq.
   */
  public static NameValuePair[] extract(Any any)
  {
    try
      {
        return ((NameValuePairSeqHolder) any.extract_Streamable()).value;
      }
    catch (ClassCastException cex)
      {
        BAD_OPERATION bad = new BAD_OPERATION("NameValuePairSeq expected");
        bad.initCause(cex);
        bad.minor = Minor.Any;
        throw bad;
      }
  }

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

  /**
   * Read the sequence from the CDR intput stream.
   * Expects the array size (as CORBA long), followed by
   * the array members (if any).
   *
   * @param input a org.omg.CORBA.portable stream to read from.
   */
  public static NameValuePair[] read(InputStream input)
  {
    NameValuePair[] value;
    value = new NameValuePair[ input.read_long() ];
    for (int i = 0; i < value.length; i++)
      value [ i ] = NameValuePairHelper.read(input);
    return value;
  }

  /**
   * Write the structure to the CDR output stream.
   * Writes the array size (as CORBA long), followed by
   * the array members (if any).
   *
   * @param output a org.omg.CORBA.portable stream stream to write into.
   * @param value an array to write.
   */
  public static void write(OutputStream output, NameValuePair[] value)
  {
    output.write_long(value.length);
    for (int i0 = 0; i0 < value.length; i0++)
      {
        NameValuePairHelper.write(output, value [ i0 ]);
      }
  }
}