Issue 18309: lookup_topicdescription semantics make it unusable (dds-xtypes-rtf) Source: PrismTech (Mr. Erik Hendriks, erik.hendriks(at)prismtech.com) Nature: Clarification Severity: Minor Summary: Section 7.6.3.2 specifies that lookup_topicdescription returns 1 matching representation. On multiple matches, an arbitrary representation is returned. This is not helpful in any way for an application trying to access a certain representation. Either its signature should be changed to return a sequence of topic representations, or it should cyclically go over each representation and return 1 at a time, so that subsequent invocations may return different representations. Resolution: Revised Text: Actions taken: December 12, 2012: received issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== m: webmaster@omg.org Date: 12 Dec 2012 08:59:22 -0500 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== ******************************************************************************* Name: Erik Hendriks Employer: PrismTech mailFrom: erik.hendriks@prismtech,com Terms_Agreement: I agree Specification: Extensible and Dynamic Topic Types for DDS Section: 7.6.3.2 FormalNumber: ptc/2012-03-26 Version: 1.0 Doc_Year: 2012 Doc_Month: February Doc_Day: Day Page: 155 Title: lookup_topicdescription semantics make it unusable. Nature: Clarification Severity: Minor CODE: 3TMw8 B1: Report Issue Description: Section 7.6.3.2 specifies that lookup_topicdescription returns 1 matching representation. On multiple matches, an arbitrary representation is returned. This is not helpful in any way for an application trying to access a certain representation. Either its signature should be changed to return a sequence of topic representations, or it should cyclically go over each representation and return 1 at a time, so that subsequent invocations may return different representations.