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On 01/04/2018 07:08 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> On 01/03/2018 09:34 PM, renato sanhueza wrote:
>> I am toying with pvAccess and I want to implement a RPC that
>> returns nothing (void). Reading the Java API I found that all RPC
>> should return a PVStructure. I tried to return an un-instantiated
>> PVStructure, but sending a Null causes an exception. What would be
>> the best way of implement a void method?
>
> A Structure need not have any members. An empty structure is as
> close to void as the PVData type system supports.
It depends on what you expect of the void data type.
An empty structure (as a type) has exactly one value: the empty
structure. This is not the same as void in C/C++, which has /no/ value
at all (you cannot assign the result of a function that returns void to
a variable). I may remember this wrongly, but I thought pvData also
supports (tagged) unions. I would say that an empty /union/, i.e. one
with no choices at all, more faithfully represents the C/C++ void.
I am pretty much aware that the distinction is mostly academic and not
of much practical relevance... ;-)
Cheers
Ben
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