openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy — pull request #2965 by rleigh-dundee (2014-08-23 22:15:49+00:00)
Title: blitz: Split RObject out of RTypes

Loopbreaking of the Ice slice code; there is a circular dependency between RTypes and IObject and the rest of the omero/model files. This change splits RObject out of RTypes into a separate model/RTypes which breaks the cycle and means that use of RTypes does not drag in IObject and the rest of the model code (via ModelF).

Marking as breaking since it's a change to the Ice code and I don't want to disrupt anything.
--breaking

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Testing: all jobs should remain green

java: verify that there are no changes to the generated java code; RObject should still be present in the same package as before.
cpp: verify that the generated code compiles; unlike the java code, this will show up as having a new header and source files under omero/model; run build-cpp or cmake to generate them.
python: I'm not entirely sure how the ice files translate to python and whether it's more like the java or cpp style. Python code using RObject (if any) might need fixing up to import the right module if this changed (I'm not sure what's correct here).