/*
 * @(#)IdentifiableBase.java	1.7 03/12/19
 *
 * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;

import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.OutputStream ;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.Writeable ;
import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.WriteContents ;
import com.sun.corba.se.spi.orb.ORB ;

import com.sun.corba.se.impl.ior.EncapsulationUtility ;

/** Provide support for properly reading and writing Identifiable objects
* that are also encapsulations (tagged profiles and components).
*/
public abstract class IdentifiableBase implements Identifiable,
    WriteContents
{
    /** Write the data for this object as a CDR encapsulation.
    * This is used for writing tagged components and profiles.
    * These data types must be written out as encapsulations,
    * which means that we need to first write the data out to
    * an encapsulation stream, then extract the data and write
    * it to os as an array of octets.
    */
    final public void write( OutputStream os )
    {
	EncapsulationUtility.writeEncapsulation( (WriteContents)this, os ) ;
    }
}