AW: [sdo] SDO 3 API Cleanup - first step

["Barack, Ron" <ron.barack@sap.com>]

Hi Frank,
 
Can you provide some clarifications why the index accessors are removed?  Is this something that you feel is not used in SDO 2.1?
 
I notice that get(Property) is there, but there is no <T> T get(Property,Class<T>).  Is this intentional?  When you are putting in generics, it's bad form to force people to cast.  
 
Since we don't yet have a solution for namespaces in XPaths, I'm not so comfortable with removing the Property based interface, and I think the index based interface is useful too, for instance, when implementing some kind of toString() method.
 
Ron
 

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Von: Frank Budinsky [mailto:frankb@ca.ibm.com]
Gesendet: Mo 17.03.2008 21:28
An: sdo@lists.oasis-open.org
Betreff: [sdo] SDO 3 API Cleanup - first step



Hi guys,

I've taken a pass at defining a new SDO 3 version of DataObject. You may
hardly recognize it :-) It's gone down from 119 to 24 methods (one of
which is new). The main changes are:

1) move from package commonj.sdo to org.oasis.sdo
2) use Java 5 generics
3) deprecate/remove int-based accessors and a couple of other methods
4) rename some methods to avoid name collisions with SDO 2.1 and static
SDOs

I've attached the new proposed interface, and a short doc file that
includes a table that shows all the changes being proposed.

If possible, I would like to spend 20 min or so of tomorrow's call talking
about this.

Thanks,
Frank