edu.stanford.slac.aida.lib.da
Class DaObject

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.slac.aida.lib.util.common._DaObjectBase
      edu.stanford.slac.aida.lib.util.common._DaObject
          edu.stanford.slac.aida.lib.da.DaObject

public class DaObject
extends _DaObject

The basic AIDA data access API class. This is the user-level class that encapsulates an AIDA Data Access Object. Use methods of this class to get data.

Version:

04-Dec-2006, Bob Hall (rdh) Added logging of client request for set operation to methods set and setDaValue., 17-Nov-2006, Bob Hall (rdh) Added set method., 18-Oct-2006, Bob Hall (rdh) Changed method setDaValue to accept a DaValue argument and return a DaValue., 28-Sep-2006, Bob Hall (rdh) Added the passing of arguments to the AidaObjectI set method in method setDaValue., 18-Sep-2006, Bob Hall (rdh) Added method setDaValue., 07-Oct-2004, Greg White (greg) Use args from reference when called with DaReference., 28-Sep-2004, Greg White (greg) Removed err import, not used here., 17-Sep-2004, Greg White (greg): More exception handling and comments and javadoc., 16-Sep-2004, Greg White (greg): Add exception handling. Up-translate constructor exceptions to UNCHECKED, so users of the basic AIDA API don't have to add code to catch initialization exceptions., 20-Nov-2002, Ron MacKenzie: Convert from using aida exceptions to package except.

Author:

July-2002, George McIntyre

Field Summary

AidaObjectI

m_da Callable interface of the Data Access Server (DaServer).

Fields inherited from class edu.stanford.slac.aida.lib.util.common._DaObject

m_args

Fields inherited from class edu.stanford.slac.aida.lib.util.common._DaObjectBase

DAO_PROPS, m_consumerPOA, m_err, m_event_channel, m_orb, m_POA_manager, m_props, m_rootPOA

Constructor Summary

DaObject()
No-argument constructor of DaObject.

DaObject(java.lang.String[] args)
Constructs a DaObject with command line arguments

DaObject(java.lang.String[] args, boolean events)
Constructs a DaObject with command line arguments and conditional event service init

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	get(DaReference r) Gets data specified by a given DaReference.
java.lang.Object	get(java.lang.String target, int type) Gets data referenced by given target.
java.lang.Object[]	geta(DaReference r) Gets given DaReference.
java.lang.Object[]	geta(java.lang.String target, int type) Gets data referenced by a given target.
org.omg.CORBA.Any	getAny(DaReference r) Gets given DaReference, giving a CORBA Any.
org.omg.CORBA.Any	getAny(java.lang.String target) Gets data specified by given target query, giving a CORBA Any.
DaValue	getDaValue(DaReference r) Gets given DaReference.
DaValue	getDaValue(java.lang.String target) Gets data referenced by given target.
protected void	init() Initialise any fields
void	reset() Reset this DaObject.
DaValue	set(java.lang.String target) Performs a set operation for a server specified by a target.
DaValue	setDaValue(java.lang.String target, DaValue v) Sets data specified by a DaValue for a server specified by a target.
void	setParam(java.lang.String parmlist) This method is used to set global Data Access Object parameters.
void	setParam(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value) This method is used to set global Data Access Object parameters.

Methods inherited from class edu.stanford.slac.aida.lib.util.common._DaObject

concatArgs, getAidaServerI, getArgs, getNameServerI, GetObjRef, getTargetRef, StoreObjRef, toStringArgs

Methods inherited from class edu.stanford.slac.aida.lib.util.common._DaObjectBase

EventConnect, getNameServerIOR, getORB, getPPConsumer, init, initEventService, setNameServerIOR, Start

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

m_da

public AidaObjectI m_da

Callable interface of the Data Access Server (DaServer). This interface is resolved automatically on creation of a DaObject.

Constructor Detail

DaObject

public DaObject()
         throws edu.stanford.slac.except.AidaInitException

No-argument constructor of DaObject. Use when there are no command line

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.AidaInitException - Probably CORBA failed to initialize.

DaObject

public DaObject(java.lang.String[] args)
         throws edu.stanford.slac.except.AidaInitException

Constructs a DaObject with command line arguments

Parameters:

args - Command line arguments that may contain CORBA arguments that expert users may wish to pass to the low level subsystems to custom initialise the ORB

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.AidaInitException - Probably CORBA failed to initialize.

DaObject

public DaObject(java.lang.String[] args,
                boolean events)
         throws edu.stanford.slac.except.AidaInitException

Constructs a DaObject with command line arguments and conditional event service init

Parameters:

args - Command line arguments that may contain CORBA arguments that expert users may wish to pass to the low level subsystems to custom initialise the ORB

events - Initialise event service?

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.AidaInitException - Probably CORBA failed to initialize.

Method Detail

init

protected void init()
             throws edu.stanford.slac.except.AidaInitException

Initialise any fields

Overrides:

init in class _DaObject

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.AidaInitException - Probably CORBA failed to initialize.

setParam

public void setParam(java.lang.String parmlist)

This method is used to set global Data Access Object parameters. These parameters will be used each time any service is called via this connection either directly or via a reference object. This version allows multiple parameters to be set at once

Parameters:

parmlist - parameter/value pairs in the form "parm=value;parm=value;parm=value;"

setParam

public void setParam(java.lang.String name,
                     java.lang.String value)

This method is used to set global Data Access Object parameters. These parameters will be used each time any service is called via this connection either directly or via a reference object.

Parameters:

name - Parameter name. Has meaning only in implementing services

value - New value for given parameter name

reset

public void reset()

Reset this DaObject. Use this method to clear any parameters that have been set for this DaObject.

get

public java.lang.Object get(DaReference r)
                     throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UndefinedNameException,
                            edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException

Gets data specified by a given DaReference. Returns an intrinsic Object.

Parameters:

r - A DaReference object that encapsulates a well formed parsed AQS (AIDA Query Specification) query. The type of this reference must have either been successfully gleaned from the compilation process or set manually with setType()

Returns:

An arbitrary intrinsic object. The user may call generic methods on the returned object, like toString() but in order to use the value the programmer needs to know what type was really returned and cast the returned value to that type.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UndefinedNameException - when the Directory Service cannot resolve the query in the given DaReference.

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException

get

public java.lang.Object get(java.lang.String target,
                            int type)
                     throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException

Gets data referenced by given target. Returns an intrinsic Object.

Parameters:

target - A AQS string target to be evaluated

type - The expected return type of the query

Returns:

An arbitrary intrinsic Object. The user may call generic methods on the returned object, like toString() but in order to use the value the programmer needs to know what type was really returned and cast the returned value to that type.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

geta

public java.lang.Object[] geta(DaReference r)
                        throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException,
                               edu.stanford.slac.except.UndefinedNameException

Gets given DaReference. Return an array of intrinsic objects

Parameters:

r - A DaReference object that encapsulates a well formed parsed AQS (AIDA Query Specification) query. The type of this reference must have either been successfully gleaned from the compilation process or set manually with setType()

Returns:

An arbitrary array of intrinsic objects. The user may call generic methods on the returned array elements, like toString() but in order to use the values the programmer needs to know what type was really returned and cast the returned value to that type.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UndefinedNameException - query string is invalid; not in Directory Service or bad syntax.

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

geta

public java.lang.Object[] geta(java.lang.String target,
                               int type)
                        throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException

Gets data referenced by a given target.

Parameters:

target - A AQS string target to be evaluated

type - The expected return type of the query

Returns:

An arbitrary array of intrinsic objects. The user may call generic methods on the returned array elements, like toString() but in order to use the values the programmer needs to know what type was really returned and cast the returned value to that type.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

getAny

public org.omg.CORBA.Any getAny(DaReference r)
                         throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException,
                                edu.stanford.slac.except.UndefinedNameException

Gets given DaReference, giving a CORBA Any. This get method should be used only when it is known that, for the specific named data item in the given DaReference, the corresponding Data Provider will return a raw CORBA Any which encapsulates a special purpose CORBA structure intended just for data of that structure. For instance, at the time of writing, the c++ CHADS Data Provider returns history data in a CORBA Any encapsulating a histData CORBA structure, so history data queries to that data provider should use this method to get an unmollested histData inserted into an Any.

Parameters:

r - A DaReference object that encapsulates a well formed parsed AQS (AIDA Query Specification) query. The type of this reference must have either been successfully gleaned from the compilation process or set manually with setType()

Returns:

A CORBA Any. If the user has access to the original helper stubs for the Any then data can be accessed like that.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UndefinedNameException - query string is invalid; not in Directory Service or bad syntax.

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

getAny

public org.omg.CORBA.Any getAny(java.lang.String target)
                         throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException

Gets data specified by given target query, giving a CORBA Any. See comments for getAny(DaReference).

Parameters:

target - A AQS string target to be evaluated

Returns:

A CORBA Any. If the user has access to the oiginal helper stubs for the Any then data can be accessed like that.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

getDaValue

public DaValue getDaValue(DaReference r)
                   throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException,
                          edu.stanford.slac.except.UndefinedNameException

Gets given DaReference. Return a DaValue

Parameters:

r - A DaReference object that encapsulates a well formed parsed AQS (AIDA Query Specification) query. The type of this reference must have either been successfully gleaned from the compilation process or set manually with setType()

Returns:

A DaValue.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

edu.stanford.slac.except.UndefinedNameException - query string is invalid; not in Directory Service or bad syntax.

See Also:

DaValue

getDaValue

public DaValue getDaValue(java.lang.String target)
                   throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException

Gets data referenced by given target. Return a DaValue

Parameters:

target - A AQS string target to be evaluated

Returns:

A DaValue.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

See Also:

DaValue

set

public DaValue set(java.lang.String target)
            throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToSetDataException

Performs a set operation for a server specified by a target.

Parameters:

target - A AQS string target to be evaluated

Returns:

A DaValue containing the returned data.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToSetDataException

setDaValue

public DaValue setDaValue(java.lang.String target,
                          DaValue v)
                   throws edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToSetDataException

Sets data specified by a DaValue for a server specified by a target.

Parameters:

target - A AQS string target to be evaluated

v - A DaValue containing the data to be set.

Returns:

A DaValue containing the returned data.

Throws:

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToGetDataException - error executing query

edu.stanford.slac.except.UnableToSetDataException