OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

odata message

[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]


Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (ODATA-365) Rename edm:AssertType to edm:CastToType and clearify behaviour


Rename edm:AssertType to edm:CastToType and clearify behaviour
--------------------------------------------------------------

                 Key: ODATA-365
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-365
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: OData Protocol 
         Environment: [Proposed]
            Reporter: Martin Zurmuehl


In most programming languages, an assertion is a predicate (a true-false statement) placed in a program to indicate that the developer *thinks* that the predicate is always true at that place. If the assertion is false, an assertion failure results, which typically causes execution to abort.

In contrast the dynamic expression edm:AssertType behaves different: It casts the value of the child expression to the specified type. So the name edm:CastToType would express this behaviour better. We must define the behaviour if the cast fails: I propose to return the NULL value as result of dynamic expression.

The third proposal is to provide a more informative example in the specification.

-- 
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/secure/Administrators.jspa
-
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

        


[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]