Questions regarding current API

[D. R. Evans]

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I think that I have figured out all the changes necessary to accommodate 
the new API. However, the question still remains as to whether I could have 
saved myself the pain (maybe this will save some other people having to go 
through it) -- is there some reasonable documentation somewhere?

  Doc

PS One comment: I found particularly odd the new method of calling some 
constructors and then having to check the value returned in a status 
indicator that is part of the constructor. This seems very non-intuitive to 
a long-time C++ programmer. We used to do this sort of thing before we had 
exceptions, but I don't think I've seen new code that does this since 
exception-compliant compilers became the norm.


On 8 May 2003 at 14:57, D. R. Evans wrote:

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> I just went through my once-every few months task of downloading the 
> current snmp++ and agent++, and see that a lot of the API that I use has now
> changed.
> 
> For example (just one of several), I used to call mpGetLocalEngineID() to
> get the engine ID, but that function no longer exists. 
> 
> Is there anywhere where the new API is reasonably well documented? Apart
> from a single comment referring to an improved v3MP class, there doesn't
> seem to be anything in the CHANGES document about v3MP. In trying to find a
> replacement to mpGetLocalEngineID() I have tried a few things that seemed
> obvious to me, but none of them worked.
> 
> I see that all the consoleExamples now create a v3MP object (this seems to
> be required, whereas before there was no such class). Sinced obviously no
> one else had much trouble moving to the new API -- I didn't see any
> discussions here -- could someone perhaps please enlighten me as to how,
> conceptually, a v3MP fits into the scheme of things?
> 
>   Doc
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