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Hi everybody,

> There has been request in libsbml to have a method to set the L2
> defaults for L3 elements, so that you do not have
> to do all the setXX yourself, having to recode the same methods as in
> libsbml if you want to provide some default values for your users.
> I think we should have for the next release, something equivalent.

We could provide such an additional method. But I would suggest to have
a method such as

public boolean initDefaults(int level, int version)

which is not necessarily bound to L2V4 or what ever. The return type
would say wether calling this method lead to a change or not. We could
then change all these existing initDefault methods to

public void initDefaults() {
initDefaults(getLevel(), getVersion());
}

That's it. In this way, we would give people the chance to re-initialize
a data type as it would be for a certain LV combination.
Furthermore, we should also make sure that listeners are triggered even
in the initDefaults method. I think this is currently not the case.

Cheers
Andreas

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Dipl.-Bioinform. Andreas Dräger
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Center for Bioinformatics (ZBIT)
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