[vbox-dev] VBox 4.0 and IMachine::AttachDevice API

[Klaus Espenlaub]

On 08.12.2010 03:03, Joseph Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Two items:
>
> 1) IMachine::AttachDevice API
> Per the documentation, the IMachine::AttachDevice API now accepts as one
> of the parameters the IMedium object. In the 3.2.x release, the UUID was
> used instead of the IMedium object.
>
> As the IMedium object already has the DeviceType element, is there a
> need continue to have that as part of the AttachDevice signature?
>
> Just wondering ...

Nope, it's not redundant (and if it were redundant the same would've 
applied to 3.2 actually, because how the medium object is identified is 
irrelevant and 3.2 also had the DeviceType in both places as well).

In the generic case, the medium parameter can be NULL (for devices 
supporting removable media), and as AttachDevice actually deals with 
adding a new storage device it must know the type in any case.

Klaus

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> Thanks for any feedback you can offer.
>
>
> Joe
>