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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.presentation.rmi ;

import java.lang.reflect. Method ;

/** Translates between methods on an interface and RMI-IIOP encodings
 * of those methods as names. 
 */
public interface IDLNameTranslator
{
    /** Get the interfaces that this IDLNameTranslator describes. 
     */
    Class[] getInterfaces() ;

    /** Get all methods for this remote interface. 
     * The methods are returned in a canonical order, that is,
     * they are always in the same order for a particular interface. 
     */
    Method[] getMethods() ;

    /** Get the method from this IDLNameTranslator's interfaces that
     * corresponds to the mangled name idlName.   Returns null
     * if there is no matching method. 
     */
    Method getMethod( String idlName )  ;

    /** Get the mangled name that corresponds to the given method
     * on this IDLNameTranslator's interface.   Returns null
     * if there is no matching name. 
     */
    String getIDLName( Method method )  ;
}
