Re: embedded CIM Instance

What to the strings look like and what does the cim/xml look 
like?  If the cim/xml does not contain the embeddedobject attribute 
for the property, the client could not determine if the strings 
received are actually embedded objects.  Remember that in cim/xml today.

1. EmbeddedInstance and object properties are defined in mof as a 
string type with a qualifier to identify them as embedded objects or instances.
2. The embedded instance is normally encoded in the cim/xml 
protocol/encoding as xml with the xml special characters escaped and 
the embedded Object attribute in the cimx/ml to tell the receiver 
that this is an embedded object.

3. In pegasus, we actually added an embeddedinstance DataType and 
attempt in the client infrastructure to decode your object if the 
attribute is attached.

Note that we are finishing some extensions to our command line client 
tool cimcli that adds capabilities for embedded instance/object 
creation, display, etc. and that will shortly be in Pegasus head of 
tree  It can be seen now as bug 9007 (preliminary) and PEP 361.

Karl
Thanks for your message at 11:53 PM 8/18/2011. Your message was:
>Hi all,
>    We need to return an array of CIM Instances in a vendor 
> extension method in our CMPI Provider. we have defined the method as follows:
>
>uint32 xxx(
>
>[IN (false), OUT, Description ("xxx"), EmbeddedInstance( "Our_Class")]
>
>string instances[]);
>
> From provider code we are adding out argument of type CMPI_instanceA.
>Our client uses SBLIM 2.0.9.3 to get CIM Instances. When we are 
>using OpenPegasus as a CIMOM, client receives the data as an array 
>of CIM Instances properly. But when we use SFCB in Vmware ESX as 
>CIMOM . Client is receiving it as array of strings only, not as CIM Instances.
>
>Any help?
>
>
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