Re: CMPI association provider

thanks fellows......

Got another question.....

 Class A
{
 string a;
}
Class B
{
 string b;
}
Class AB
{
 A ref a1;
 B ref b1;
}
Relation 1 to many [ A has many B's]

now I have,
InstanceProviderA for class A and
InstanceProviderB for class B
for associationproviderAB: for associators() fucntion,
where I have instance of class A and I should return all instances of B.
I am not sure How to do that? should I call enumrateinstances of
instanceproviderB?
will that possible as all three are different C files? I mean
InstanceproviderA.c    ==> made to a.so file
InstanceproviderB.c    ==> made to b.so file
AssociationProviderAB.c ==> made to ab.so file.
[my project requires those all to be different files. In otherewords one
provider per class]

I looked few examples, but all they have single provider doing both instance
& assocation in single .c file [in that it has access to all the functions.]
e.g.:
1) http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_Develop_a_CIM_Provider
2)
http://cvs.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pegasus/src/Providers/sample/CMPI/FilesAndDirectories/CWS_DirectoryContainsFile.c?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup


any suggestions plz....

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Kirk Augustin <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Ah, then I can understand why there could be some choices.
> I do not always implement associator or reference enumeration normally.
> That is because the client can instead enumerate all of the expected
> association and search themselves.
> I can see how these methods could be handy if you wanted clients to be able
> to manage the CIMON data integrety, delete instances, clean up hanging ones,
> etc., but I find it easier to have providers take care of that instead.
> Since I don't use them in my clients, I can be more careless.
> But it depends on what the clients you have to support expect?
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* kamal jeera <[email protected]>
> *To:* Karl Schopmeyer <[email protected]>; Kirk Augustin <
> [email protected]>
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Wed, February 3, 2010 11:03:45 AM
> *Subject:* Re: CMPI association provider
>
> My bad.  Sorry to both of you karl and Kirk for misguiding/missing info.
>
> Kirk,
> You are right that we need at least enumerate for a class. But if we look
> at closely other Assocation functions they are nothing but enumerations.
>
>
>    - associatorNames()
>
> – enumerate ObjectPaths of Instances associated with an Instance
>
> associators()
> – enumerate Instances associated with an Instance
>
> referenceNames()
> – enumerate the ObjectPaths of Association Instances that refer to an
> Instance
>
> references()
> – enumerate the Association Instances that refer to an Instance
> Karl,
>
> I posted wrong link.  Actually I got this from Opengroup.
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699949899/toc.pdf
> [page 55]
>
> Let me know what you guys think....
>
> thanks much!
> Kamal
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Karl Schopmeyer <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> This one is easy.  The second reference (wbemsource) was a group formed
>> several years ago but now inactive.  Use the DMTF profile specifications,
>> they are the specifications to which we work.
>>
>> Karl
>> Thanks for your message at 06:59 PM 2/2/2010, kamal jeera. Your message
>> was:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> got some questions on CMPI association provider.  But I will stat out with
>> basic question.
>>
>> I did searched on the message archive but didn't find the one I was
>> looking for.  So here I am.
>>
>> OK,
>>
>> on this document
>>
>>    -
>>    http://www.dmtf.org/apps/org/workgroup/applications/metricextensions/download.php/38074/DSP1053_1.0.0.pdf
>>    - [note: may have to sign in before you can access above document]
>>
>> It says required functions as [ on page 27] remember that *CIM_MetricDefForME
>> is an assocation class
>> *  Associators
>> AssociatorNames
>> References
>> ReferenceNames
>> EnumerateInstances
>> EnumerateInstanceNames
>>
>> on this docment
>>
>>    - http://www.wbemsource.org/uploads/40/3712/CMPI.pdf/
>>
>> It says required fucntions as [on page 32]
>>  Associators
>> AssociatorNames
>> References
>> ReferenceNames
>>
>> I am little bit confused which functions are must ???
>>
>> Thanks much.......got others questions as well but will do some more
>> reading....
>>
>> Karl Schopmeyer                   Inova Development Inc.
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>>
>>
>