Yes, the general guideline is to use Status (in C++ APIs) for
exceptional behavior that is out of the control of the user of the C++
APIs. We have been trying to not use Status to make assertions that
the developer has invoked the API correctly -- instead preconditions
and other such checks should
Hello,
the general rule is: Use a Status as return value when you would throw an
exception, otherwise return the value directly. In the case where a DCHECK is
sufficient and no method is called that would return a Status, we should get
rid of the Status return. For the AddField case it would be
Hello,
I'm trying to understand when it is recommended to return a Status
instance and use an out parameter for the result value, vs. when it is
allowed to return the result value naturally.
For instance we currently have the following methods on the Schema class:
Status AddField(int i, const
