function overloading support in AIDL

[RupaSunita n]

Hi,
I'm getting an error when overloading methods in an AIDL file.
It's complaining that i'm trying to redefine the same method:

frameworks/base/core/java/android/view/IWindowSession.aidl:76 attempt to redefine method relayout,

The methods have different parameters, so it should be ok. Has anybody seen this issue?
any pointers are really useful.


Thanks & Regards,
Sunita.

[Dianne Hackborn]

Interfaces do not support overloading.

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[RupaSunita n]

thanks Dianne.
But if i want to avoid the interface break and minimize the changes to other components,
is there any other way? other than defining a new interface method?

thanks & Regards,
sunita.

[Dianne Hackborn]

I'm not sure what overloading has to do with that.

You can add new methods to an AIDL interface; if you add them to the bottom, the generated code will remain compatible with code generated from the old interface.

We are however pretty careful to not expose AIDL interfaces in the SDK, because they tend to be implementation details of the platform and generally there is a lot less flexibility for maintaining compatibility with an AIDL interface.

[RupaSunita n]

Thanks Dianne.

Regards,
sunita.

[Company Techunami]

Hi,

I am experiencing the same. What do you mean by adding it to the bottom of the interface ? Can you please give me an example. The different ways I tried does not work.

Regards,

Willie

[Satish Patel]

Hi,

To my knowledge function overloading does not supported in AIDL

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