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[Fernand Vanrie]

  Lionel ,

i did a lot of googling, but still not know what are this extra properties ?

Greetz

Fernansd
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:49:03PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 2013-05-16 16:25:40 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
>>> 	+ double check Lionel's list-box / API change (Eike)
>> Done. The two properties added to
>> com.sun.star.form.component.DataBaseListBox are marked optional which
>> doesn't harm existing clients.
> I did that on advice of ... Michael Stahl? ... on IRC to shut up the
> "incompatible API change" error the build was giving me.
>
> My understanding was that this was for the benefit of putative
> existing *providers* of this service, that since the properties are
> optional, we did not change the requirements under their feet and they
> still conform to the service specification.
>
> I don't understand how the properties being not optional would harm
> *clients* (users of the service): clients written against the old
> specification would simply not use the new properties, would they?
>
> I toyed with the idea of adding a
> com.sun.star.form.component.DataBaseListBox2 that makes them
> non-optional so that users can be assured to have those properties,
> but in the end I did not bother, and now we are past the 4.1 new
> feature freeze.
>