Re: Question for Provider Developers - It is possible to completely automate the process of writing a CMPI provider?

* Chatterjee, Biswapratap <[email protected]> [Nov 22. 2010 06:47]:
> Hi all,
> 
> This question has been banging in my head for quite some time. "It is possible to completely automate the process of writing a CMPI provider?"
> 
> I have been putting lot of effort in making this possible. Since, I have always believed that writing a provider is a repetitive task. If it is a standard,
> then we have a set of guidelines to write it, we just have to develop an intelligent software who can understand the guidelines on its own and
> automate the process of provider development. The developer should only worry about the schema diagram that abstracts its
> hardware/architecture. Something like - "Draw your schema and get your provider shared object".

Have a look at pywbem (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pywbem/index.php?title=Provider_Home)
which provides client bindings as well as a 'provider generator'.
With this you can code your provider in Python, thus drastically
reducing your development time.
It starts with a .mof file and gives you a complete and runnable (!)
provider template to fill in the real instrumentation.


I am working on a similar tool currently for writing providers in
Ruby. See https://github.com/kkaempf/genprovider. The goal here is to
completely shield a developer from the provider code, letting him
focus on the resource instrumentation.

Klaus
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