[redland-dev] Call a function or use struct directly?

[Dave Beckett]

raptor_locator is a public structure (part of the API contract) so
you can use the fields directly.  The methods are for convenience.

Dave


On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Victor Porton wrote:

> http://librdf.org/raptor/api/raptor2-section-locator.html
>
> describes a structure raptor_locator and several access method which retrieve values from this structure:
>
> int                 raptor_locator_line                 (raptor_locator *locator);
> int                 raptor_locator_column               (raptor_locator *locator);
> int                 raptor_locator_byte                 (raptor_locator *locator);
> const char *        raptor_locator_file                 (raptor_locator *locator);
> const char *        raptor_locator_uri                  (raptor_locator *locator);
>
> In my Ada bindings, can I use the structure directly or should I call these functions?
>
> I suppose that I may need to call functions from forward compatibility reasons, but accessing the fields of the structure directly would be more efficient.
>
> So, should I use the fields of the structure directly or call the above listed functions?
>
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> Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
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