Re: [infinispan-dev] [jgroups-dev] Incompatible change in 3.1.0

On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Bela Ban wrote: > > > On 11/29/11 10:20 AM, Galder Zamarreño wrote: >> Hmmm, why do you need to break API here? >> >> Couldn't you maintain the current API and add?: >> void Message.setMsgFlag(short flag) >> void Message.clearMsgFlag(short flag) >> boolean Message.isMsgFlagSet(short flag) > > > The problem here is that if you call Message.setFlag(byte flag) with > Message.OOB, you'll have to change your code anyway, namely narrow the > short to a byte. Right, that's assuming that you change to a short for Message.OOB. You could leave it as it is and have Message2.OOB which is a short.