[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: offapi/com offapi/type_reference

[Eike Rathke]

Hi Tamás,

On Monday, 2016-11-21 13:43:18 +0000, Tamás Zolnai wrote:

>  offapi/com/sun/star/sheet/GeneralFunction.idl |   14 ++++++--------
>  offapi/type_reference/offapi.idl              |   18 +++++++++---------

This is a no-go, already the previous commit
eb27a63a38ee7d15292dc40520b0605e4c2228e2 was.. if you have to modify
offapi/type_reference/offapi.idl then obviously you're introducing an
incompatible change, and the type_reference should *never* be modified,
as it exactly checks API against incompatibilites with existing API.

In this case extending an enum with a new value, even if appended, may
cause problems with existing Java programs, if it receives an unknown
enum value it will bail out.

Because css::sheet::GeneralFunction is used as readable property, as
return value and also as a member in css::sheet::SubTotalColumn that can
be returned these changes are not acceptable. Please revert:

commit eabfd1b60f8e181e0ef2721e716210390528f4ce
Author: Tamás Zolnai <tamas.zolnai at collabora.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 21 13:57:29 2016 +0000

commit eb27a63a38ee7d15292dc40520b0605e4c2228e2
Author: Tamás Zolnai <zolnaitamas2000 at gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Nov 19 22:27:20 2016 +0100


To introduce new values one has to create a new type, best constant as
constant values can be extended, add a new optional property using that
type, overriding the old enum, derive a new interface using the type for
all interfaces that use GeneralFunction and derive a new struct for
SubTotalColumn to also use GeneralFunction. Yes this is painful.. and
a reason to never introduce enum types again.

For an example see commit 4c4976f717b3ddce68a872dffc2079ae49c41616

  Eike

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