[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Recent commit to Application.pm

[Mike Rylander]

On 11/4/07, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I recently committed a change to
> trunk/src/perlmods/OpenSRF/Application.pm handler() method
> that silences a raw Perl warning when a message with no parameters is
> received. However, I just wanted to confirm that it is legal for OpenSRF
> messages to not have any parms; if that's not legal, then I should also log
> an error. I don't want to hush what could potentially be an error condition.

Nope, it's fine for @p to be an empty array.  There aren't many
methods that don't require /any/ params, but there certainly are some.

> I apologize if the expected behaviour is defined somewhere; I tried finding
> info in the wiki on the OpenSRF API but didn't find a spec for this
> instance.

This is part of the internal stack, and as such isn't exposed through
a "published" API.  Thanks for making sure!

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