[QPID-2423] Add Constructors to set initial value of content for MapContent and ListContent

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Component/s: C++ Client
• Assignee: Ted Ross
• Reporter: Ted Ross
• Created: 26/Feb/10 19:16
• Updated: 29/Jul/13 19:06
• Resolved: 26/Feb/10 20:29

Description

MapContent and ListContent (helper classes in the qpid::messaging API) don't have a convenient way of being initialized with an already-existing map or list.

I propose that in addition to the

{Map,List}Content(Message&) constructor, a new constructor be added that also takes a const Variant::{Map,List}

& as an initial value.

Note that the current constructors will decode map/list content already in the message. That will remain unchanged but the new constructors will clear the message content, if there is any.

-Ted