User's Guide: A Framework for Object Persistency for GNAT; Version 0.6.1; Document Revision $Revision: 1.17 $
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API Reference

function Create

   function Create(   
      Name : in String ) return Reference;

this type represents the persistent collection.

   Unknown_Attribute : exception;

Create an entity of the given name.

None.

P.1 - The function returns a reference to the named entity. If the

named entity already exisits, the reference will be returned. Otherwise a new instance will be created.

None

   function Name(  
      This : in Reference ) return String ;

Preconditions:

Exceptions:

   function Attributes(  
      This : in Reference ) return Attribute_Array_Access ;

Preconditions:

Exceptions:

   procedure Destroy(  
      This : in out Reference );

Desctroy the entity

P.1 - The reference point to a collection.

C.1 - All resources are released

C.2 - The reference to the entity is set to null

Invalid_Object - P.1 violated

   function Attribute(  
      This   : in Reference; 
      Name   : in String ) return Reference;

Preconditions:

Exceptions:

   procedure Attribute(  
      This   : in Reference; 
      Name   : in String; 
      Value  : in Reference );

Preconditions:

Exceptions: