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Re: How to handle methods in a common interface that supports different versions of a message format

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mike <mikaelpetterson@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Since we only had support for 1.0 user only used Netconf interface. Now
> we will return two types of interfaces Netconf10 or Netconf11. This
> would mean that users using 1.0 (Netconf) now need to use Netconf10 in
> those cases they need Netconf 1.0 specific methods.Correct?

If you had a time of just "NetConf" released to the world, and still need
to support old code using it, then you're bound to leaving the name "NetConf"
there, meaning "NetConf10".

If later versions of that interface can also lose methods, then you might
need to have a set of methods to return each of the set of NetConf##-Interfaces.
  NetConf getNetConf() { ... }  // Version 1.0
  Netconf_1_1 getNetConf_1_1() { ... }  // Version 1.1

If instead you only added methods, the interfaces could inherit the lower-
version interfaces, and your code would just return the latest Interface
version and that would painlessly cast to whatever older interface version
the user is using.  I'd try hard to get on this track.

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How to handle methods in a common interface that supports different versions of a message format mike <mikaelpetterson@hotmail.com> - 2019-12-05 23:55 -0800
  How to handle methods in a common interface that supports different versions of a message format javaXp <n.sharir@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 04:27 -0800
  Re: How to handle methods in a common interface that supports different versions of a message format Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-06 21:49 -0500
    Re: How to handle methods in a common interface that supports different versions of a message format mike <mikaelpetterson@hotmail.com> - 2019-12-08 23:51 -0800
      Re: How to handle methods in a common interface that supports different versions of a message format Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-09 21:24 -0500
      Re: How to handle methods in a common interface that supports different versions of a message format Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-12-10 16:41 +0000

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