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package org.omg.IOP;

import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * The ServiceContext structure contains the service data, being passed in the
 * CORBA message. For instance, then passing the wide characters, it is
 * mandatory to include the service context, defining the used encoding.
 * The contexts are recognised by they integer indentifier.
 * In this class, the content of the context is represented as an abstract
 * array of bytes.
 *
 * @see ServiceContextHolder
 * @see ServiceContextHelper
 *
 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
 */
public final class ServiceContext
  implements IDLEntity, Serializable
{
  /**
   * Use serialVersionUID (v1.4) for interoperability.
   */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = -2232391417465261379L;

  /**
   * The context id (for instance, 0x1 for code sets context).
   * At the moment of writing, the OMG defines 16 standard values and
   * provides rules to register the vendor specific context ids.
   * The range 0-4095 is reserved for the future standard OMG contexts.
   */
  public int context_id;

  /**
   * The context_data.
   */
  public byte[] context_data;

  /**
   * Create the unitialised instance, assigning to
   * the all fields java default values.
   */
  public ServiceContext()
  {
  }

  /**
   * Create the instance, initialising the fields to the given values.
   */
  public ServiceContext(int a_context_id, byte[] a_context_data)
  {
    this.context_id = a_context_id;
    this.context_data = a_context_data;
  }
}
