[svn-r4482] Purpose:

    Kludge
Description:
    Since we're only about halfway through converting the internal use of
    property lists from the "old way" to the generic property lists, we turned
    off snapshots to avoid exposing lots of API changes to users, until the
    APIs settled down.

    Getting the snapshots rolling again seems to have become a priority, so
    some changes are going to have to be made now that were going to be
    postponed until we were completely finished with the conversion.  This
    requires that the old API functions be able to deal with both the old
    and new property lists smoothly.

Solution:
    Kludge together the property list code so that they can transparently handle
    dealing with both the old and new property lists

Platforms tested:
    FreeBSD 4.4 (hawkwind)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/c++/src/H5PropList.h b/c++/src/H5PropList.h
index 037b0d8..c800ace 100644
--- a/c++/src/H5PropList.h
+++ b/c++/src/H5PropList.h
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ class PropList : public IdComponent {
 	// Default property list
         static const PropList DEFAULT;
 
-	// Creates a property list given the property list type.
-	PropList( H5P_class_t type );
+	// Creates a property list of a given type or creates a copy of an 
+	// existing property list giving the property list id
+	PropList( const hid_t plist_id );
 
 	// Default constructor: creates a PropList object - this object
 	// does not represent any property list yet.
@@ -29,11 +30,7 @@ class PropList : public IdComponent {
 
 	// Gets the class of this property list, i.e. H5P_FILE_CREATE,
 	// H5P_FILE_ACCESS, ...
-	H5P_class_t getClass() const;
-
-	// Creates a default property list or creates a copy of an 
-	// existing property list giving the property list id
-	PropList( const hid_t plist_id );
+	hid_t getClass() const;
 
 	// Used by the API to close the property list
 	void p_close() const;