CIMOM refuses EmbeddedObject with unknown class

Andreas Maier <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:39:06 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.open-pegasus.general
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Jan:

> What troubles me a bit is description of
> CIM_InstMethodCall.MethodParameters property:
>
>     The parameters of the method, formatted as an EmbeddedObject
>     (with a predefined class name of "__MethodParameters".
>
> I interpret it as the classname must be literally "__MethodParameters"
> and not a subclass of it. Am I reading it wrong?

I can see your point, but I would not worry too much about it
and simply interpret this as "including subclasses". I believe
that is the intent (at least it would make sense), and I think
the text there is simply flawed. We will discuss that as well
in the DMTF Arch WG.

Andy

Andreas Maier
IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, Systems Management Architecture & Design
IBM Research & Development Laboratory Boeblingen, Germany
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