[foreign] RFR 8218153: Read/Write of Value layout should honor declared endianness

[Henry Jen]

OK, if we agreed that certainly can be done. :)

Just that, the method doesn’t make sense for other Layout except Value and Group, so they will be no-op.

Cheers,
Henry


> On Feb 27, 2019, at 2:13 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 27, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Henry I think what we were suggesting was to add a new interface method to Layout
>> 
>> e.g.
>> 
>> interface Layout
>> 
>>    Layout withEndianness(Endianness)
>> }
>> 
>> and have the subtypes override accordingly. We want this to be usable by clients.
> 
> Yes please; that's what I was hoping for also.
> 
>