Introduction

What do the Dates Mean?

The supplied dates indicate when the API change was made, on the CVS trunk. From this you can generally tell whether the change should be present in a given build or not; for trunk builds, simply whether it was made before or after the change; for builds on a stabilization branch, whether the branch was made before or after the given date. In some cases corresponding API changes have been made both in the trunk and in an in-progress stabilization branch, if they were needed for a bug fix; this ought to be marked in this list.

Index of APIs

Frontend API

Incompatible changes by date

Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).

Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.

(Dec 2 '06) Changing the behaviour when closed

All changes by date

(Dec 2 '06) Changing the behaviour when closed
(Jul 20 '06) Support for creating own implementations of Frontend
(Jul 11 '06) Added access to signal strength statistics

Changes by version

These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:

OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: net.sf.dvbcentral.lib > 1.20

(1.3) Changing the behaviour when closed
(1.2) Support for creating own implementations of Frontend
(1.1) Added access to signal strength statistics

Changes by affected class

`net.sf.dvbcentral.lib.Frontend`

(Dec 2 '06) Changing the behaviour when closed
(Jul 20 '06) Support for creating own implementations of Frontend
(Jul 11 '06) Added access to signal strength statistics

Details of all changes by API and date

Frontend API

Changing the behaviour when closed

Dec 2 '06; API spec. version: 1.3; affected top-level classes: Frontend; made by: jtulach
Calling Frontend.close() shall ensure that it will always since then return false from isOpen() as is the expected behaviour on channels.

Support for creating own implementations of Frontend

Jul 20 '06; API spec. version: 1.2; affected top-level classes: Frontend; made by: jtulach
For testing purposes it is very useful to be able to create own implementation of a frontend without any connection to real device files. For this purpose there is now method createVirtual(...) .

Added access to signal strength statistics

Jul 11 '06; API spec. version: 1.1; affected top-level classes: Frontend; made by: nenik
Added new getStats() method to obtain information about signla strength.