udkapi/com/sun/star/bridge/XBridgeSupplier.idl

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  22  module com {  module sun {  module star {  module bridge {
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  25
  26 /** defines the interface for creating bridges to other object models.
  27
  28     <p>Because bridges sometimes can not be generated in an address space,
  29     the implementation needs to check the address space of the caller by
  30     comparing the machine and process ID against its own. These IDs are
  31     provided by the UNO runtime.  </p>
  32
  33     <p>All objects, whether they are part of the UNO object model or not,
  34     are carried in an `any`.  The representation of this object
  35     is heavily model-dependent and has to be specified in the following list: </p>
  36
  37     <dl>
  38         <dt>UNO: </dt>
  39         <dd>The any carries normal UNO types, which can be any base type,
  40         struct, sequence, enum, or interface.  </dd>
  41
  42         <dt>OLE:    </dt>
  43         <dd>The any carries an `unsigned long` (on 32-bit systems)
  44         or an `unsigned hyper` (on 64-bit systems), which is
  45         interpreted as a variant pointer. The any does not control the
  46         lifetime of the represented variant. That implies that the caller
  47         has the responsibility of freeing the OLE resources represented
  48         by the any value.  </dd>
  49
  50         <dt>JAVA:   </dt>
  51         <dd>not yet specified.  </dd>
  52     </dl>
  53
  54     <p>Any implementation can supply its own bridges to other object
  55     models by implementing this interface and returning the bridge
  56     when the method is called with itself as the first parameter. </p>
  57
  58     @see com::sun::star::bridge::OleBridgeSupplier
  59     @deprecated
  60  */
  61 published interface XBridgeSupplier: com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
  62 {
  63
  64     /** creates a bridge to provide an object of one object model with another.
  65      */
  66     any createBridge( [in] any modelDepObject,
  67              [in] com::sun::star::uno::Uik MachineId,
  68              [in] long ProcessId,
  69              [in] short sourceModelType,
  70              [in] short destModelType )
  71             raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
  72
  73 };
  74
  75 }; }; }; };
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