changing the UNO dispose/disposing() protocol ?

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 5/28/23 16:02, Noel Grandin wrote:
> Specifically, I would like to change the part where if a component is 
> already disposed, it throws a DisposedException. Instead it should 
> simply ignore the call (i.e. return early)

The documentation of css.lang.XComponent::dispose at 
udkapi/com/sun/star/lang/XComponent.idl states

>         <p>After this method has been called, the object should behave as passive
>         as possible, thus it should ignore all calls
>         in case it can comply with its specification (for instance addEventListener()).
>         Often the object can't fulfill its specification anymore,
>         in this case it must throw the DisposedException
>         (which is derived from com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException)
>         when it gets called.</p>
> 
>         <p>For some objects no real owner can be identified, thus it can be
>         disposed from multiple reference holders. In this case
>         the object should be able to cope with multiple dispose()-calls (which
>         are inevitable in a multithreaded environment).

This does not encourage implementations of XComponent to throw 
DisposedException upon repeated calls to dispose, anyway.