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Diffstat (limited to 'TAO/tao/Endpoint.h')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/TAO/tao/Endpoint.h b/TAO/tao/Endpoint.h index b762595ef58..d89582e973e 100644 --- a/TAO/tao/Endpoint.h +++ b/TAO/tao/Endpoint.h @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ TAO_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL +class TAO_ORB_Core; + /* * Includes and forward decls for specializing TAO's * endpoint implementation. @@ -79,12 +81,29 @@ public: */ virtual CORBA::Boolean is_equivalent (const TAO_Endpoint *other_endpoint) = 0; - /// Endpoints can be stringed in a list. + /// Endpoints can be linked in a list. /** * @return The next endpoint in the list, if any. */ virtual TAO_Endpoint *next (void) = 0; + /** + * Return the next endpoint in the list, but use protocol-specific + * filtering to constrain the value. The orb core is needed to supply + * any sort of filter arguments, and the root endpoint is needed in case + * the algorithm needs to rewind. If the supplied root is 0, then this + * is assumed to be the candidate next endpoint. + * + * To use this, the caller starts off the change with root == 0. This + * is a bit of a violation in logic, a more correct implementation would + * accept this == 0 and a non-null root. + * To do iteration using next_filtered, do: + * for (TAO_Endpoint *ep = root_endpoint->next_filtered (orb_core, 0); + * ep != 0; + * ep = ep->next_filtered(orb_core, root_endpoint)) { } + */ + virtual TAO_Endpoint *next_filtered (TAO_ORB_Core *, TAO_Endpoint *root); + /// Return a string representation for the address. /** * The purpose of this method is to provide a general interface to |