Re: [OpenBD] How does this look for basic remote function?

['Alan Holden' via Open BlueDragon]

In the broadest terms, functions which return Boolean answers frequently bear names which begin with "is". I think it was a Java thing. So if it were my API, it would probably bear a name like isUserIdOK (also because UserId is what gets passed in). If the parameter were actually something called "APIKey", then my method would have a similar change in name to something closer to yours. But in reality, I would rarely expose a method for outside usage that returned only a Boolean. The remote method I'd expose would call your little Boolean gizmo privately, but then return a "standard structure" (something common to all API methods in the hypothetical app) which includes a "message" (one for users to see, another for logging) and "request" (always echo what was passed in) sub-structures, in addition to the specific payload and a universal "success" int of 0 or 1. I don't have time to help outsiders understand why their calls returned a "false", let the method tell 'em. But enough about me... Al P.S. I'd also like to point out that my spell checker thinks that isUserIdOK was supposed to be "didgeridoo", so a shout-out to any Australians in the group. On 12/18/2014 12:17 PM, Jason Allen wrote: Is name 'checkExistsAPIKey' a good name?  I've considered checkAPIKeyExists, isDefinedAPIKey, APIKEYisDefined, etc.  -- -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open BlueDragon" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openbd+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.