Issue 6329: Operations should return Boolean instead of void (sdo-pim-psm-ftf) Source: Fraunhofer FOKUS (Mr. Raju Nanda Vaidya, nobody) Nature: Enhancement Severity: Significant Summary: Operations should return Boolean instead of void. Operations that request some action to be performed ((eg. subscribe (data: NotificationSubscription) : void)) does not return anything. Because nothing is returned the requesting SDO will not know if the requested action was carried out successfully or not (eg. if the request for subscription was don’t or not). For this reason Boolean should be returned in such operations. Return Boolean instead of void in such operations. Resolution: Revised Text: Actions taken: October 15, 2003: received issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== From: webmaster@omg.org Date: 15 Oct 2003 12:37:26 -0400 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Raju N. Vaidya Company: Fraunhofer FOKUS mailFrom: vaidya@hotmail.com Notification: Yes Specification: Platform Independent Model (PIM) and Platform Specific Model (PSM) for Super Distributed Objects (SDO) Specification Section: PIM, PSM FormalNumber: dtc/03-09-01 Version: 03-09-01 RevisionDate: 03-09-03 Page: PIM, PSM Nature: Enhancement Severity: Significant HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description Operations should return Boolean instead of void. Operations that request some action to be performed ((eg. subscribe (data: NotificationSubscription) : void)) does not return anything. Because nothing is returned the requesting SDO will not know if the requested action was carried out successfully or not (eg. if the request for subscription was donÞ²t or not). For this reason Boolean should be returned in such operations. Return Boolean instead of void in such operations.