RE: How do you tell the Master Agent it can skip over a table row ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Shield [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 4:26 AM
> To: Giulianelli, Danilo (Danilo)
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: Re: How do you tell the Master Agent it can skip over a table
> row?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:08 -0400, Giulianelli, Danilo (Danilo) wrote:
> >  But when there are no rows in a given table, even though the
> > table_dataset handler returns NOSUCHINSTANCE, the master agent
> > still keeps asking for all the next columns.
> 
> That's correct.
> It's quite legitimate to have "holes" in a table.
> So the absence of a value in one particular column
> does not necessarily mean that the row doesn't exist.
> There could easily be values in some of the other
> columns of this same row.
> 
> > Is there a way I can send the master agent a special error
> > code so that it will skip over my entire table row instead
> > of keep asking for the next column anyway?
> 
> No - not that I can think of.
> 
> But if there are no rows in the table, why don't you
> just unregister that table from the master agent?
> 

Well most of my tables contain a RowStatus column, so it is a catch 22 situation: in order to create the first row you need to have the table registered with the Master agent. If I don't I will never get the SET request.
Thanks anyway for the explanation. I appreciate it.

Danilo Giulianelli


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