FDO RFC 32 - GetSpatialContexts cleanup

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Status

RFC Template Version	(1.0)
Submission Date	April 4, 2009
Last Modified	Steve Dang Timestamp
Author	Steve Dang
RFC Status	draft (draft, proposed, frozen for vote, adopted, retracted, or rejected)
Implementation Status	pending (pending, under development, completed)
Proposed Milestone	3.5
Assigned PSC guide(s)	Orest Halustchak
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Overview

This RFC is to deprecate the Spatial Context active flag that is obsolete and no longer in use by:

• The FdoIGetSpatialContexts derived classes (to retrieve the spatial contexts in the feature source).
• The FdoISpatialContextReader derived classes (to retrieve the spatial context data).

Motivation

• Make the GetSpatialContexts API consistently reliable across all providers.
• Clean up legacy code and make existing code more readable.

Proposed Solution

• Update the documentation on the following APIs, indicating they will be deprecated in the future:

    FDO_API virtual const bool FdoIGetSpatialContexts::GetActiveOnly() = 0;

    FDO_API virtual void FdoIGetSpatialContexts::SetActiveOnly(const bool value) = 0;

    FDO_API virtual const bool FdoISpatialContextReader::IsActive() = 0;

• Update existing code to discontinue usages of the obsolete Spatial Context active flag where applicable.

Implications

• Avoid using the APIs listed above as they will be deprecated in the future.

Test Plan

• The existing GetSpatialContexts API should work as before.
• Existing unit tests should all pass.

Funding/Resources

Autodesk