[AFS3-std] Callback Extended Information Draft 4
Jeffrey Hutzelman
jhutz@cmu.edu
Wed, 14 May 2008 17:46:27 -0400
--On Wednesday, May 14, 2008 05:36:42 PM -0400 Matt Benjamin
<matt@linuxbox.com> wrote:
> Create AFSExtendedCallbackV2, which aggregates an AFSExtendedCallbackV1,
> and then adds new members. Create ExtendedCallbackV2 taking
> AFSExtendedCallbackV2 as argument.
Oh, you don't need to do that. You _can_ gracefully extend the union, as
long as you are willing to accept that calls made using a discriminator not
known to the server you are calling will abort with RXGEN_SS_UNMARSHALL.
This is the moral equivalent of a call to an RPC not supported by the
server aborting with RXGEN_OPCODE, and is perfectly acceptable, given that
you shouldn't be sending notifications with unknown types anyway.
-- Jeff