Re: API design considerations - variable-length array in record type

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am working on the API design where there is a need for a record type
> with field(s) that are arrays of some predefined type (say, Integer).
> So, an example record type might look like this:
>
> type R is record
>    X : Integer;
>    Y : Unbounded_String;
>    Z : Array_Of_Integers_That_We_Talk_About_Here;
> end record;
>
> A straightforward choice is a predefined instantiation of
> Ada.Containers.Vectors for Integer and this would be probably the
> least surprising, especially in the context of Y : Unbounded_String,
> but at the same time I'm open to consider some more lightweight
> alternatives.
> The problem is - any other alternative I can think of leads to the
> complication of API in the form of introducing
> Ada.Finalization.Controlled to the picture.
>
> Do you have some favourite solutions?

Ada.Containers.Bounded_Vectors meets these requirements.

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