Vague description of delivery guarantees for requests.
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#66 Vague description of delivery guarantees for requests.
It is important that the programmer that writes Dob user applications understand the delivery guarantees for requests and the meaning of request responses generated by the Dob itself. In particular the error code 'Timeout' means that we don't know if the request has, or will, be delivered to the handler.
Today the request delivery guarantees are poorly desribed in the User's Guide. Also, the API design, where the Dob error code is in string format, makes it easy for an application programmer to miss this important distiction.
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At least add documentation in 4.5. Raise new ticket if we need to do any changes.
Updated users guide in revision 1972 to contain a bit of info on request timeouts.