On 04/08/2013 04:51 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
On 04/05/2013 08:47 PM, John Dennis wrote:
On 04/05/2013 07:35 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
I'm confused in section where you are describing structures and array of structures. I think this is where Embedded Instances take place. However, the KonkretCMPI does not support embedded instances.
Hello Roman:
I'm not familiar with embedded instances. Can you elaborate or provide a pointer to documentation?
Thanks.
I can't find much in documentation. Just in CIM Metamodel (CIM Infrastructure Specification) [1] are few words about Embedded Objects.
Embedded object is qualifier. For example you can have parameter of method with this qualifier. Such parameter will be embedded object (instance or class). The type of parameter is string. When we talk about instances - this string is encoded (embedded) instance of some class. There are functions in CMPI to create instance from this string representation.
I have never used this. But I think it could help to encapsulate definition of parameter and passing it, but with need of such definition in model.
Ah, O.K. yes this now rings a bell with me and I did momentarily consider this as an option. My understanding is it amounts to formatting the data in MOF syntax and passing it as a string. One then parses the MOF formatted string.
My take on this is:
* It's very awkward to use, it's not a friendly API scheme.
* I didn't find any support for parsing MOF syntax in any of the libraries a provider links with.
Thus at the moment it doesn't seem like a viable option and even if we grow support for parsing MOF syntax I'm not sure one would want to design an API around passing MOF snippets.
[1] http://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0004_3.0.0.pd...