Hi Andrew:
-----Original Message----- > From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 7:13 PM > To: Carey Sublette > Cc: POI Development; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Interface Change to HSSF (AND mail list problems) > > > Hi Carey, > > Can you try subscribing the the dev list once more? Do you receive > mails and just cant send them or are left out all together. I'm > confident with Pier's help we can find the answer. > > I'm leaving this up to Glen. I personally don't like this patch and > would prefer the listener to return status (basically on whether it > would like to cause an exit condition). I'm not sure why I don't like > it exactly just it feels wrong. > > In the event of a catastrophic record format condition HSSF already > could throw a record format exception. > > Furthermore, its possible someone may simply want to exit not because of > some error, but because they grabbed the data they wanted. I'd prefer a > solution that handles both cases. (Via an error or status condition > perhaps just a boolean return value). > > -Andy
