this |
A media database. |
id |
A record ID. |
the database record corresponding to If you are implementing a full database using this API, then you probably want to increment the reference count before returning a record pointer. On the other hand, if you are implementing an adapter class and the records are stored elsewhere, then you will probably return a transient record. That is, once the user is done using it, the returned record should be free'd because it is a adapter copy of the real record. In this case, the reference count should not be incremented before returning a record pointer. |