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

[Dickson, Mike]

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.

> -----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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