Source for org.omg.IOP.CodecFactoryOperations

   1: /* CodecFactoryOperations.java --
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  38: 
  39: package org.omg.IOP;
  40: 
  41: import org.omg.IOP.CodecFactoryPackage.UnknownEncoding;
  42: 
  43: /**
  44:  * Defines the operations, applicable to
  45:  * the CodecFactory.
  46:  *
  47:  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  48:  */
  49: public interface CodecFactoryOperations
  50: {
  51:   /**
  52:    * Create Codec for the given encoding.
  53:    *
  54:    * @param for_encoding the encoding, for that the codec must be created.
  55:    *
  56:    * @return the appropriate Codec.
  57:    *
  58:    * @throws UnknownEncoding if there are not Codec that would support the
  59:    * required encoding.
  60:    */
  61:   Codec create_codec(Encoding for_encoding)
  62:               throws UnknownEncoding;
  63: }