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037    
038    
039    package org.omg.CORBA;
040    
041    
042    /**
043     * Represents the {@link DynAny}, holding the CORBA structure (variant record
044     * with the named fields). The internal reference, described in
045     * {@link DynAny#current_component()}, iterates over the fields of the
046     * member, stored in the union. The union always holds only one member;
047     * which one, depends from the value of the discriminator.
048     *
049     * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynUnion}
050     *
051     * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
052     */
053    public interface DynUnion
054      extends DynAny
055    {
056      /**
057       * Returns the discriminator, defining, which set of fields is stored.
058       * @return the discriminator.
059       */
060      DynAny discriminator();
061    
062      /**
063       * Returns the discriminator kind.
064       */
065      TCKind discriminator_kind();
066    
067      /**
068       * Returns the member, stored in this union.
069       */
070      DynAny member();
071    
072      /**
073       * Returns the kind of the member, stored in this union.
074       */
075      TCKind member_kind();
076    
077      /**
078       * Returns the name of the currently focused member.
079       */
080      String member_name();
081    
082      /**
083       * Renames the currently focused member.
084       *
085       * @param new_name the new name of the currently focused member.
086       */
087      void member_name(String new_name);
088    
089      /**
090       * Checks if the discriminator of this union has been assigned a valid
091       * default value.
092       */
093      boolean set_as_default();
094    
095      /**
096       * Determines if the discriminator of this union gets assigned a valid
097       * default value.
098       * @param assign_default
099       */
100      void set_as_default(boolean assign_default);
101    }