001/* ValueExp.java -- Represents values that can be passed to queries. 002 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038package javax.management; 039 040import java.io.Serializable; 041 042/** 043 * Represents values that may be passed as arguments to 044 * {@link QueryExp}s. Strings, numbers and bean attributes 045 * are all valid argument types for query expressions, and 046 * so should be represented as implementations of this 047 * interface. 048 * 049 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 050 * @since 1.5 051 */ 052public interface ValueExp 053 extends Serializable 054{ 055 056 /** 057 * Applies the value expression to the specified management bean. 058 * 059 * @param name the name of the management bean. 060 * @return the value expression. 061 * @throws BadStringOperationException if an invalid string 062 * operation is used by 063 * the value expression. 064 * @throws BadBinaryOpValueExpException if an invalid expression 065 * is used by the value expression. 066 * @throws BadAttributeValueExpException if an invalid attribute 067 * is used by the value expression. 068 * @throws InvalidApplicationException if the value expression is applied 069 * to the wrong type of bean. 070 */ 071 ValueExp apply(ObjectName name) 072 throws BadStringOperationException, BadBinaryOpValueExpException, 073 BadAttributeValueExpException, InvalidApplicationException; 074 075 /** 076 * Changes the {@link MBeanServer} on which this query is performed. 077 * 078 * @param server the new server to use. 079 * @deprecated This method is superfluous, as the {@link ValueExp} 080 * can access the server using 081 * {@link QueryEval#getMBeanServer()}. 082 */ 083 void setMBeanServer(MBeanServer server); 084 085}