Support Methods

Support methods exist within the Application Programming Interface (API) to allow a Sharable Content Object (SCO) to determine error handling and diagnostic information. Error conditions may occur with each API function described so far. When these error conditions are encountered, the error code is changed to indicate the error encountered. The calls to Support Methods do not affect the error state. In other words, calling any of the support methods shall not change the current error code. These support methods allow the SCO to determine if an error occurred and how to handle any error conditions encountered.

Upon completion of the content, learners will be able to identify the following for each Support Method: