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An InputObject
is the interface used by the
* presentation block to get programming language typed data from data
* encoded in a message.
The implementation of an InputObject
contains the
* encoded data. When the presentation block asks for data the
* implementation of InputObject
is responsible for converting
* the encoded representation of the data to the types expected by the
* programming language.
A particular encoding would subclass
* InputObject
. The subclass would provide methods to get
* the data types appropriate to the presentation block (e.g., simple
* types such as int or boolean, all the way to any type derived from
* java.io.Serializable
.).
Note: the protocol block may also use the InputObject
to
* obtain header metadata.