Oidx in Agent++

[Alex Finogenov]

Frank,

Thank you for your reply.

I assume that you keep exceptions away from your code for portability
reasons, otherwise an exception seems to be a better way to communicate an
erroneous condition.

Thanks,
Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank.Fock____t-online.de [mailto:Frank.Fock____t-online.de]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 3:52 PM
To: Alex Finogenov
Cc: 'agentpp-dl____agentpp.com'
Subject: Re: Oidx in Agent++


Alex,

You are right. The 0 is a valid sub-identifier. But what
should these operations return when the OID is invalid?
If you are not sure whether the OID you are processing
is valid or not you should call Oidx::valid() before you
call one of the below methods. They are just returning
0 to avoid crashes if invalid OIDs are used.

Best regards,
Frank

Alex Finogenov wrote:

> Frank,
>
> In the Agent++ "unsigned long Oidx::last()" and "unsigned long
> Oidx::operator[]" return a value of 0 when the Oidx
> object is in valid (valid() fails).
>
> Can't this create a problem since the value 0 is a valid value for a
scalar
> Oid's last subidentifier?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

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