Re: Datatype interface extension

[James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>]

Are you saying that the allowed arguments of the isValid() method on the 
Datatype interface depends on the return value of the isContextDependent() 
method on a separate interface? That doesn't seem right to me. The Datatype 
interface should be semantically self-contained.  I think the 
isContextDependent() method must be on the Datatype interface.  This isn't 
so bad, as it's potentially useful for other applications independently of 
the Datatype compatibility spec. The getIdType() can be on a separate 
CompatibilityDatatype interface.

--On 11 September 2001 16:42 -0700 Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI 
<kohsuke.kawaguchi@eng.sun.com> wrote:

>
> I implemented the CompatibilityDatatype interface, which has two methods
> (isContextDependent and getIdType).
>
> I changed the documentation of the isValid (and related) methods so that
> passing null context is OK as long as the datatype is
> context-independent.
>
>
> Is there any problem if I check in this code?
>
> regards,
> --
> Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI                          +1 650 786 0721
> Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi@sun.com
>
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