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/*
 *  Copyright (C) 2004 OntoText Lab, Sirma AI OOD
 *
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 *  Web:                             http://www.ontotext.com
 *  Sirma Group International Corp.  http://www.sirma.com
 *  Sirma AI Ltd.                    http://www.sirma.bg
 *
 *  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 *  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
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 */

package org.openrdf.util.rmirouting;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Title: RMI routing
 * Description: The Job class represent a single invocation of a method
 * returning 'void' that has been invoked only with native and seralizable
 * arguments. This si very usefull way to batch several invocation of a such
 * king into a single RMI call so to reduce the net trafic. 
 * Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004
 * Company: Ontotext Lab. Sirma AI
 * @author Damyan Ognyanoff
 * @version 1.0
 */

class Job implements Serializable {
  /**
   * The description of the method being invoked. Actually, it is a char array
   * which begins with the name of the method followed by the names of the
   * classes of its arguments. All these substrings are separated by '|'
   * character. The description is parsed on the other side of the channel
   * and it is used to locate and invoke that method on the reflected instance
   * there.
   */
  char[] methodDescription;

  /**
   * the actual arguments used within the method call. They should be either
   * instances imeplemnting java.io.Serializable or be some of the java native
   * types e.g. byte, char, etc.
   */
  byte[] serializedArgs;

  /**
   * constructor
   * @param methodDescription of the method to be batched
   * @param args used for the method call
   */
  public Job(char[] methodDescription, Object[] args) {
    this.methodDescription = methodDescription;
    java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream buf = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream(2048);
    try {
    java.io.ObjectOutputStream oo = new java.io.ObjectOutputStream(buf);
    oo.writeObject(args);
    } catch (java.io.IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      // should throw some exception here
    }
    this.serializedArgs = buf.toByteArray();

  }

  /**
   * second constructor that receive a method description as String
   * @param m the description of the method invoked
   * @param args used for the the method call
   */
  public Job(String m, Object[] args) {
    this(m.toCharArray(), args);
  }
} //Job