On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 22:51 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > You're right, it isn't difficult to check what is returned -
> > provided you know what to expect. If you're new, however, to
> > the API and unfamiliar with the fact that it returns the next
> > domain in the line, you could hit what we just hit. We built
> > an application to use the interface and our tests returned
> > some odd behavior. We had to delve deeper to find out if this
> > was correct or not.
>
> You're not the first person to be caught out by this -- I seem to recall
> that xenctx forgets to do the domid check too.
>
> Passing a flag in to explicitly request that you want to iterate would
> probably be an improvement to the interface.
Instead of changing the interface and the applications, how about the
following: If you request a specific domain id and it doesn't exist, you
get back the expected result. If, however, you want a list of domains it
works like it has been.
Thanks,
Dan
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