ChangeLogTag:Thu Sep 14 16:39:12 2000 Priyanka Gontla <pgontla@ece.uci.edu>

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+// $Id$
+
+// ============================================================================
+//
+// = LIBRARY
+//   TAO
+//
+// = FILENAME
+//   IOR_Parser.h
+//
+// = AUTHOR
+//   Carlos O'Ryan (coryan@cs.wustl.edu)
+//
+// ============================================================================
+
+#ifndef TAO_IOR_PARSER_H
+#define TAO_IOR_PARSER_H
+#include "ace/pre.h"
+
+#include "tao/corbafwd.h"
+
+#if !defined (ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE)
+# pragma once
+#endif /* ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE */
+
+#include "ace/Service_Object.h"
+
+class TAO_Export TAO_IOR_Parser : public ACE_Service_Object
+{
+  // = TITLE
+  //   Defines the interface for the pluggable IOR parser components
+  //
+  // = DESCRIPTION
+  //   The ORB is able to dynamically load the list of IOR formats it
+  //   understands.  That allow us to integrate formats such as
+  //   corbaname:, http: or ftp: only when required.
+  //   This class provides a uniform interface for all the IOR parsers
+  //
+public:
+  virtual ~TAO_IOR_Parser (void);
+  // The destructor
+
+  virtual int match_prefix (const char *ior_string) const = 0;
+  // Return 1 if <ior_string> starts with a prefix known to this IOR
+  // parser
+
+  virtual CORBA::Object_ptr parse_string (const char *ior,
+                                          CORBA::ORB_ptr orb,
+                                          CORBA::Environment &)
+    ACE_THROW_SPEC ((CORBA::SystemException)) = 0;
+  // Parse the <ior> argument and return an object reference.
+  // The call may raise the standard system exceptions (NO_MEMORY,
+  // INV_OBJREF, etc.)
+};
+
+#if defined (__ACE_INLINE__)
+# include "tao/IOR_Parser.i"
+#endif /* __ACE_INLINE__ */
+
+#include "ace/post.h"
+#endif /* TAO_IOR_PARSER_H */