Re: modify association provider

Hi,

Thanks once again for your explanations.

I'm facing other problem, that is about the association references.
I have my association Instance (Instance_A) and I want one of it
associated instances (Instance_A1),
When I do : Instance_A->Instance_A1 to retrieve the associated
instance, it is incomplete because I can only get the key properties
and the others are empty.

How can I the get the instance with all properties?

I'm using CIMPLE and the instances are stored in a Instance_Map.

Thanks in advance,
Ricardo Mendes


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Tim Potter <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's also the very rare three-way association.  From the depths of the
> SMI-S schema the CIM_SCSIInitiatorTargetLogicalUnitPath associates an
> initiator and target protocol endpoint with a storage extent.
>
> Tim.
> On 08/07/2010, at 6:28 AM, John McLaughlin wrote:
>
> Actually, an Association object can carry data as well (see SMI-S BasedOn
> and CompositeExtentBasedOn).  These objects can be retrieved with a
> “references()†call from either end of the association, and their
> CIMObjectPaths from a “referenceNames()†call.  I have not done this, but I
> assume you can (if your provider supports it as an Instance provider in
> addition to being an Association provider) simply call the
> “modifyInstance()†or “setProperty()†methods to modify the object.
>
> However, if you are not the provider developer there’s no assurance that the
> Association provider was created to support any or all of these features.
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> John McLaughlin
> iStor Networks, Inc.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Kirk Augustin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 5:18 PM
> To: Ricardo Mendes; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: modify association provider
>
> Not sure exactly what you mean.
> And association is just an object that hold the paths of 2 other objects, so
> that they can be linked in a query and each found.
> The association provider copies the paths into the association instance, but
> does not change or effect the actual instances that it linked together, so
> should not be expected to call those instance providers.
> But since your provider must have the paths of each object, then it could
> also access and modify them if it wanted to.
> However, it would be somewhat inappropriate for an association provider to
> do that.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Ricardo Mendes <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tue, July 6, 2010 4:15:25 PM
> Subject: modify association provider
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I have one association provider, if I modify one of it's associated
> providers trough the association provider, should the modify_instance
> of the associated provided be invoked?
> Mine isn't being invoked, which is a problem for me.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> RM
>