[Ns-developers] get value of a GlobalVariable

[Nicola Baldo]

Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 18:39 +0200, Nicola Baldo wrote:
> 
>>> I don't think so but I guess we could add void 
>>> GlobalValue::GetValueByName (std::string name, AttributeValue
>>> &value). Care to cook a patch ?
>> Patch attached. If it is ok I can commit it to ns-3-dev.
> 
> I don't have the code handy but I believe that the convention followed
> in this global-value.cc file as well as the attribute code is to
> NS_FATAL_ERROR if the requested operation cannot be completed. There is
> thus no need to return bool from that function. Usually, there is a
> FailSafe variant with the bool return value and the non-FailSafe
> function is implemented by a call to the FailSafe version.
> 

Ok, here is a revised version of the patch. Just let me know...

Nicola


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