Issue 2419:  Corrections to the equals/setEquals interfaces of DTime (currency-rtf)
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Nature:  Revision
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Summary: Summary: The equals/setEquals() interfaces accept a base class CORBA Object as the
 parameter type. The instance passed must be narrow’ed to a DDecimal, DTime,
 etc. for the interface to carry on with its task. This is not possible as
 the Ddecimal, Dtime, etc. are not IDL Interfaces, they are IDL Value types.
 Since an IDL Value type does not derive from Object, the narrow’ing is not
 possible. This also affects other portions of the CBO … DCurrency, DMoney,
 etc. Also, equals(in Object anObject) causes a problem in a Java
 implementation as every Java class inherits from java.lang.Object. The
 boolean equals(Object obj) method supported by java.lang.Object cannot be
 overriden AND additional throw an FbcException. Thus, equals(), setEquals()
 should be changed wherever defined to be equal(), setEqual().
 

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Actions taken:
January 11, 1999: received issue
Discussion: 

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Today is the deadline for comments for the Currency RTF.  Below is an
itemized list of additions to that list.


Issue Title:  Corrections to the equals/setEquals interfaces of DTime
Issue Type: IDL Revision
Issue Description:
The equals/setEquals() interfaces accept a base class CORBA Object as
the
parameter type. The instance passetc. for the interface to carry on
with its task. This is not possible as
the Ddecimal, Dtime, etc. are not IDL Interfaces, they are IDL Value
types.
Spossible. This also affects other portions of the CBO ince an IDL
Value type does not derive from Object, the narrowed must be narrow
DCurrency, DMoney,
etc. Also, equals(in Object anObject) causes a problem in a Java
implementation as every Java class inherits from java.lang.Object. The
boolean equals(Object obj) method supported by java.lang.Object cannot
be
overriden AND additional throw an FbcException. Thus, equals(),
setEquals()
should be changed wherever defined to be equal(), setEqual().