Informix Error -4134

-4134 Class qualification not allowed when invoking an event.

The program specified a class name followed by a scope resolution operator (::) and the name of an event. Replace the class name with the name of the appropriate object.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-4134 fires when a class name (rather than an object name) is used with :: before an event name — per the official guidance, events must be invoked through an object, not qualified by a class name.

An event invocation qualified with a class name via ::, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Replace the class name with the name of the appropriate object, per the official guidance.

Examples

An event qualified with a class name

CALL Order::MyEvent()
-- -4134: events are invoked through objects, not class names

Corrected

DEFINE o Order
CALL o.MyEvent()

Diagnostic Checks

Check every event invocation using ::, and replace the left-hand class name with an object reference.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-4127 — "Event expected." A related event-usage error, about the HANDLE identifier not being a declared event at all, rather than a valid event being invoked with the wrong qualifier.

An event is invoked with a class-name qualifier via :: — use an object reference instead.