Issue 4356: No description for Factory and Finder interfaces in DfOrganizationalEntity (osf-ftf)
Source: Adaptive (Mr. Pete Rivett, pete.rivett(at)adaptive.com)
Nature: Clarification
Severity: Significant
Summary: :  There is no description of the Factory or Finder interfaces for the OrganizationalEntity Module: they just appear in the diagrams and IDL. So it's not clear what PositionFactory::create_position_from_template (for example) will actually do with the properties attached to the template - given that no initial value is defined in the template, there seems to be no notion of a 'permitted' set of attributes for an instance, and no concept of an 'undefined'/'unset' attribute value. So if one creates a Position from a template with a property "A1", then what is the effect of then calling get_additional_attributes on the Position? Will A1 be returned, and if so with what value and what type?
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June 20, 2001: received issue
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Issue:  No description for Factory and Finder interfaces in
DfOrganizationalEntity module
Source:  Adaptive Ltd. (Mr. Pete Rivett, pete.rivett@adaptive.com)
Nature:  Clarification
Severity:  Significant
Summary:  There is no description of the Factory or Finder interfaces
for the OrganizationalEntity Module: they just appear in the diagrams
and IDL. So it's not clear what
PositionFactory::create_position_from_template (for example) will
actually do with the properties attached to the template - given that
no initial value is defined in the template, there seems to be no
notion of a 'permitted' set of attributes for an instance, and no
concept of an 'undefined'/'unset' attribute value. So if one creates a
Position from a template with a property "A1", then what is the effect
of then calling get_additional_attributes on the Position? Will A1 be
returned, and if so with what value and what type?
Resolution:
Revised Text:
Actions taken: