com.novell.service.ncpext
Interface NCPExtension

public interface NCPExtension

Represents an NCP Extension registered on the NetWare server.

An NPCExtension allows you to send requests to and receive replies from NCP Extensions registered on a NetWare Server. It has one single- valued attribute with the attribute ID equal to NCPExtensionInfo.

See Also:

NCPExtensionInfo

Method Summary

byte[]

send(byte[] request, int maxReplyLength) Sends a request to an NCP Extension.

Method Detail

send

public byte[] send(byte[] request,
                   int maxReplyLength)
            throws com.novell.service.jncp.NSIException

Sends a request to an NCP Extension. Request data for the NCP Extension must be packed into the request byte array. Any return data will be contained in the return byte array.

A temporary buffer set to the size specified by the maxReplyLength parameter will be allocated. For performance reasons, specify as small an amount as you will need. The actual amount returned will be less than or equal to this number, which must be <= 0xFFFF, because it is treated as an unsigned short.

Parameters:

request - The byte array containing request data.

maxReplyLength - The maximum number of bytes the user wants returned.

Returns:

A byte array containing reply data.

Throws:

com.novell.service.jncp.NSIException - Standard NJCL exception for working on top of Xplat libraries.