[Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA

[Alan Robinson]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Ewan Birney wrote:

> The other thing I would *really* like is to remove the
> 
> get_PrimarySeqVector
> 
> from PrimarySeqDB and replace it with 
> 
> 
> get_PrimarySeqIterator
> 
> 
> The vector call is almost unimplementable for most DB implementations I
> have got, where as the Iterator is trivially implementable. Alan - this is
> your baby here - can we change this?

I'll contend that it was not me that wanted vectors!!

I'd go a step further and ask if we need Vector objects at all in the IDL?

I'm happy to go with just having Iterators (N.B. having an optional
'size()' method *might* be handy, so you have an idea how many objects are
in the collection [returns '-1' if unknown, or throws an 'unknown'
exception?]).

Alan.

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