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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 12, 2010

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EGL does not support recursion in records

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Currently, EGL doesn't support records with recursive datatypes, meaning that records that look something like

record rec1
r rec1[ ];
end

are not possible in EGL. Since I've come across quite a few web services written in Java that return an object with recursive properties, EGL should support creating that kind of records as well. That would give EGL the ability to generate clients for that kind of services, which it currently isn't able to do.


Or, in other words, EGL has reference types and value types. When an instance of a reference type is created its value is null, when an instance of a value type is created the entire object is populated. EGL records are value types. This means when a record instance is created all of its fields are created this is true even if the record field is defined as nullable.
In order to support recursion we must be able to define records as reference types and this is currently not supported by EGL.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 11, 2021

    IBM Business Developer is a continuous delivery offering, and aims to satisfy the needs of a rapidly evolving market segment. Product strategy evolves and requirements are continuously evaluated against that strategy. This RFE has recently been reappraised against the wider product strategy and does not fall into IBMs delivery plans for the next 12 month. Whilst this RFE might be valid and we might look to deliver longer term, this RFE is being rejected at this time.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 10, 2021

    This RFE is more than a decade old. It might not be relevant now. Please create a new RFE if this requirement still exists.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 8, 2010

    Thank you for this input. We agree that this would be a useful enhancement, and we will consider it in our planning for a future release.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 12, 2010

    This is a very good feature to have

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