[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] sink-input: Don't assert when removing non-existent volume factor

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 09:28 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 09:24 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 11:44 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 09:03 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 11:41 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > > > > This makes it easier for users of this API to add/updated a volume
> > > > > factor by doing a _remove_volume_factor() followed by an
> > > > > add_volume_factor(), rather than having to either remember whether this
> > > > > is the first set operation or have an API to query whether a factor has
> > > > > already been set.
> > > > 
> > > > There is a query API already:
> > > > pa_hashmap_contains(i->volume_factor_items, key)
> > > > 
> > > > Oops, I was wrong, that function doesn't exist (it probably should be
> > > > added). The same thing can be achieved with pa_hashmap_get() too,
> > > > though.
> > > 
> > > I think it's a bit ugly to expect users of that API to check the
> > > underlying structure itself first, though.
> > 
> > Yes, but only slightly ugly. We generally allow reading object variables
> > directly across classes (and to some extent write, but in my opinion
> > that shouldn't be allowed).
> > 
> > Anyway, I changed my mind about the change even before your reply. The
> > reason is that I think it's ugly to require callers to always check the
> > object state before calling a function. The function should fail if the
> 
> Yup, that was my primary reason.
> 
> > state is not good (fail in some other way than crashing, that is). I'd
> > like the failure to be reflected in the return value, so could you
> > change the void function to return an int?
> 
> Sure, it's en route. Used a bool, though.

Do you remember the discussion about reporting errors with ints vs.
bools? My recollection is that we agreed to use ints. It's also written
on
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/CodingStyle/

-- 
Tanu