Summary

Some additional changes for polishing.

Focus

• Does the Octave interface feel overall usable?
• Do the suggested changes add any additional value?

Test Environment

As usual: make install; make test, or manually with
pkg load caosdb; c = Caosdb(); ent = c.retrieve_by_id("999"){1}; ent.get_properties_as_struct().length.value

Check List for the Author

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• All automated tests pass
• Reference related Issues caosdb/customers/lfpb/management#419
• Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md (Part of previous announcements)
• Annotations in code (Gitlab comments)
  • Intent of new code
  • Problems with old code
  • Why this implementation?

Check List for the Reviewer

• I understand the intent of this MR
• All automated tests pass
• Up-to-date CHANGELOG.md
• The test environment setup works and the intended behavior is reproducible in the test environment
• In-code documentation and comments are up-to-date.
• Check: Are there spezifications? Are they satisfied?

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TODO

• set CPPLIB_BRANCH to dev