Re: [libvirt] [PATCH libvirt-java 9/9] Add resize flags to StorageVol
At Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:41:14 +0100,
Jiri Denemark wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 12:38:16 +0100, Claudio Bley wrote:
...
> Additionally, consensus was that we should drop the C prefixes from
> enum values when wrapping them in Java. I will do this for existing
> enums when I find the time, but for new enums we could just as well
> avoid introducing them in the first place.
>
> In this case the prefix of VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_RESIZE should be
> removed. Usage would thus be
>
> Domain.BlockResizeFlags.BYTES
This is certainly good for new enums, however, you need to be careful
when changing existing enums. You would need to keep the long names for
backward compatibility.
This is certainly true.
But there are some issues that require changing the API without being
able to provide backward compatibility. (Changing method return types,
without changing their parameter list, so overloading does not help
here).
The plan is to drop backward compatibility at some point and fix all
of those issues. Probably in libvirt-java 0.5.x.
Claudio
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