RE: [Tm4j-developers] WARNING: TopicMap interface change

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a heads-up to let you know that I added a new method to
> the TopicMap
> > interface:
> >
> > Iterator getObjects();
> >
> > Which should return an Iterator over all of the TopicMapObjects
> which are
> > associated with the topic map.
> >
> > The in-memory implementation has this function added, although
> it is broken
> > because it only iterates over Topics and Associations. I'm
> working on a fix.
> > However, I guess that the Ozone implementation will need
> updating too...do
> > you have time to take a look at that, Gerd ?
>
> At the moment I don't have the time for a full implementation,
> since iterators are a bit tricky. But I will add a dummmy
> implemenation to stay interface compatible.
>

OK.

> Just an idea: Is it really necessary to return an iterator. Wouldn't
> be a collection enough ? That would make the ozone impl. much more
> easier.
>

Oh! I had done that because I thought that the iterator would be easier to
implement for Ozone...DOH! :-)
I too would prefer a Collection as the return value because it is consistent
with the rest of the interface.

So lets go for

Collection getObjects();

Cheers,

Kal