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+    /*
+
+    Copyright (C) 2000 Stefan Westerfeld
+                       stefan@space.twc.de
+
+    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+  
+    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+    Library General Public License for more details.
+   
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+    along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
+    the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+    */
+
+#ifndef MCOP_DYNAMICREQUEST_H
+#define MCOP_DYNAMICREQUEST_H
+
+#include "buffer.h"
+#include "anyref.h"
+#include <vector>
+#include <string>
+
+#include "arts_export.h"
+
+/*
+ * BC - Status (2002-03-08): DynamicRequest
+ *
+ * Has to be kept binary compatible (use d ptr).
+ */
+
+namespace Arts {
+
+class Object;
+class Type;
+class DynamicRequestPrivate;
+
+/**
+ * The DynamicRequest class can be used to invoke requests on objects, without
+ * using IDL generated code to do so (i.e. you can talk to objects without
+ * having to know their interfaces at compile time)
+ *
+ * Suppose you have the interface
+ *
+ * interface SimpleSoundServer {
+ *   [...]
+ *   long play(string file);	// plays a file and returns an id
+ *   [...]
+ * };
+ *
+ * And server is of type SimpleSoundServer, you can write in your C++ code:
+ *
+ *   long id;
+ *   if(DynamicRequest(server).method("play").param("/tmp/bong.wav").invoke(id))
+ *   {
+ *     cout << "playing file now, id is " << id << endl;
+ *   }
+ *   else
+ *   {
+ *     cout << "something went wrong with the dynamic request" << endl;
+ *   }
+ *
+ * You can of course also add parameters and other information one-by-one:
+ *
+ *   DynamicRequest request(server);
+ *   request.method("play");
+ *   request.param("/tmp/bong.wav");
+ *
+ *   long id;
+ *   if(request.invoke(id)) cout << "success" << endl;
+ */
+
+class ARTS_EXPORT DynamicRequest {
+public:
+	/**
+	 * creates a dynamic request which will be sent to a specific object
+	 */
+	DynamicRequest(const Object& object);
+
+	/**
+	 * deletes the dynamic request
+	 */
+	~DynamicRequest();
+
+	/**
+	 * says that the following method will be a oneway method, for example
+	 *
+	 * DynamicRequest(someobject).oneway().method("stop").invoke();
+	 */
+	DynamicRequest& oneway();
+
+	/**
+	 * sets the method to invoke
+	 */
+	DynamicRequest& method(const std::string& method);
+
+	/**
+	 * adds a parameter to the call
+	 */
+	DynamicRequest& param(const AnyConstRef& value);
+
+	/**
+	 * executes the request, call this if you don't expect a return type
+	 * 
+	 * @returns true if the request could be performed
+	 */
+	bool invoke();
+
+	/**
+	 * executes the request: this version accepts an AnyRef& as result type
+	 *
+	 * @returns true if the request could be performed
+	 */
+	bool invoke(const AnyRef& result);
+
+	/*
+	 * TODO: Some types can't yet be used in dynamic requests, these are
+	 * enum, sequence<enum>, type, sequence<type>, object, sequence<object>
+	 */
+private:
+	DynamicRequestPrivate *d;
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif /* MCOP_DYNAMICREQUEST_H */