indexing

description: "Parent of all profile classes";
keywords: "GIOP framework", "object reference";
status: "See notice at end of class";
date: "$Date$";
revision: "$Revision$"

deferred class IOR_PROFILE

inherit
    MICO_COMPARABLE

feature -- Access

    addr : ADDRESS is

        deferred
        end
----------------------

    id : INTEGER is

        deferred
        end
----------------------

    get_objectkey (l : INTEGER_REF) : ARRAY [INTEGER] is

        require
            nonvoid_arg : l /= void

        deferred
        end
----------------------

    reachable : BOOLEAN is

        deferred
        end
----------------------

    components : MULTI_COMPONENT is

        do
        end
----------------------
feature -- Encoding and Decoding

    encode_id : INTEGER is

        deferred
        end
----------------------

    encode (ec : DATA_ENCODER) is

        deferred
        end
----------------------
feature -- Mutation

    set_objectkey (o : ARRAY [INTEGER]; cnt : INTEGER) is

        require
            enough_data : o.count >= cnt

        deferred
        end
----------------------
feature -- Miscellaneous

    print_it is

        deferred
        end
----------------------

    keycompare (k1, k2 : ARRAY [INTEGER]) : INTEGER is

        local
            i, n : INTEGER

        do
            if k1 /= void and k2 /= void then
                if k1.count /= k2.count then
                     result := k1.count - k2.count
                else
                    from
                        i := 1
                        n := k1.count
                    until
                        i > n or result /= 0
                    loop
                        result := k1.item (i) - k2.item (i)
                        i      := i + 1
                    end
                end
            end
        end

end -- class IOR_PROFILE

------------------------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------------