On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 4:54 PM Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us wrote: > On 12/21/18 3:10 PM, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > > >> interfaces as envisioned by OCF are a stretch in applying the concept > >> you see in some object-oriented languages to the OCF API model, and > >> didn't ever get explained well. but that's just my opinion as an > >> outsider-gadfly type these days :) > >> > > > > See, here's a problem. OCF does not do interfaces. Its a protocol. > > "Interfaces" are an implemetation detail. Iotivity has a very wierd > > quasi-OO notion of interface. In any case OCF should have no truck with > > interfaces. > > it does - as I said, it's the object-oriented concept, the one of > defining the possible inputs and outputs on a particular view (a view of > a resource, in this case), such as the links-list interface which lets > you operate only on the links or the batch interface which lets you > operate on the batch collection. >
Glad I did not send that draft wherein I explain how wrong you are. The next day it dawned on me that we're talking about completely different things. I'm talking about CAInterface_t > and related. You're talking about the OCF concept "interface". Completely unrelated. interface > is a horribly overloaded term and I wish OCF had picked a > different name for this Not just overloaded. Plain wrong. A better name would be "capability". It really has nothing to do with oo or interfaces. If your resource does not support the write "interface", you cannot write to it. That's a permission idea, has nothing to do with the concept "interface", afaik. I suspect this reflects a basic confusion about APIs v. Protocols. "Interface" is largely meaningless with respect to comm protocols, imho. G -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#10104): https://lists.iotivity.org/g/iotivity-dev/message/10104 Mute This Topic: https://lists.iotivity.org/mt/28815690/21656 Group Owner: iotivity-dev+ow...@lists.iotivity.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.iotivity.org/g/iotivity-dev/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
