[interfacekit] Re: BRoster::FindApp()

"Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My guess is that this has something to do with the fact that
> "text/xyz123" is not a registered mimetype in the database
> until step 5.  In fact, if you add the mimetype to the database
> directly through the File Types interface, then it does work
> okay.  So I suppose you could say the bug is:
> 
> "GetSupportingApps does not work for mimetypes that are
> not in the database, even if the supertype is"

That makes much sense, thanks for the detailed explanation!

> > Does it show up in our implementation as well?
> Visual inspection would lead me to believe that our
> implementation does not have this bug.  If the complete
> type is not in the database, our implementation goes on
> to check the supertype independently anyway.  Yay
> for OBOS. :-)

Cool! :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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