DDSJAVA — Parent accessors should be uniform across Entities and Conditions

Source:

RTI (Rick Warren, rick.warren@rti.com)

Summary:

All DomainEntity interfaces, and some Condition interfaces, can provide a reference to the parent object. In the case of Entities, this accessor has been captured in the form of a generic base interface method:

PARENT DomainEntity.getParent();

However, StatusCondition and ReadCondition are not parallel. They provide the following methods:

ENTITY StatusCondition.getEntity();

DataReader<TYPE> ReadCondition.getDataReader();

It would be more consistent if we renamed both of the above methods to getParent.

Proposed Resolution:

Rename StatusCondition.getEntity to getParent.

Rename ReadCondition.getDataReader to getParent.

Rename StatusCondition.getEntity to getParent.
Rename ReadCondition.getDataReader to getParent.