Iterator/size() (was: [Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA)

[Juha Muilu]

"Dickson, Mike" wrote:
> 
> The other way to do this is to always permit a reset() but return an
> "iterator invalid" exception on a call to the other methods.  Essentially,
> if someone calls reset they probably won't continue to use the current
> iterator as is anyway.

I agree with this. So my vote is not to have exception on the reset() call

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Senger [mailto:senger@ebi.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:58 AM
> > To: Juha Muilu
> > Cc: Alan Robinson; biocorba-l@biocorba.org
> > Subject: Re: Iterator/size() (was: [Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA)
> >
> >
> > What about the reset() method in the iterator: should it have
> > an exception
> > if the iterator cannot be reset (which may be quite common if
> > you provide
> > a list of objects from some underlying stream), or we just
> > document that
> > such situation should use CORBA::NO_IMPLEMENT?
> >
> >    Btw, the current other LSR specifications use the latter
> > approach, I
> > would probably feel cleaner to have there an explicit
> > exception. But no
> > strong opinion.
> >
> >    Martin
> >
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