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Container describes objects that can contain other objects. It is a base interface for the following interfaces:
Each of the Interface Repository types inherits fromRepositoryModuleDefInterfaceDef
Contained or Container, or both.
// IDL
typedef string Identifier;
typedef Identifier InterfaceName;
typedef sequence<Contained> ContainedSeq;
interface Container {
struct Description {
Contained contained_object;
Identifier name;
any value;
};
typedef sequence<Description> DescriptionSeq;
ContainedSeq contents(
in InterfaceName restrict_type,
in boolean exclude_inherited);
ContainedSeq lookup_name(
in Identifier search_name,
in long levels_to_search,
in InterfaceName restrict_type,
in boolean exclude_inherited);
DescriptionSeq describe_contents(
in InterfaceName restrict_type,
in boolean exclude_inherited,
in long max_returned_objs);
};
Contained
ContainedSeq contents( in InterfaceName restrict_type, in boolean exclude_inherited);
Repository.
Container::describe_contents()
DescriptionSeq describe_contents( in InterfaceName restrict_type, in boolean exclude_inherited, in long max_returned_objs);
describe_contents() is a combination of the operation Contained::describe() and the operation Container::contents(). It returns a sequence of Description structures:
struct Description {
Contained contained_object;
Identifier name;
any value;
};
each of which gives the object reference of a contained object, together with its name and value.
Container::contents()Contained::describe()
ContainedSeq lookup_name( in Identifier search_name, in long levels_to_search, in InterfaceName restrict_type, in boolean exclude_inherited);
search_name.