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On 06/25/2013 09:20 AM, Russell Doty wrote:
On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 14:10 +0200, Peter Hatina wrote:
Hi,
from now, there is a preferred way, how to filter instances and instance names by using a dictionary. The old means of filtering still works, as well.
Examples (with networking provider):
eth0 = cimv2.LMI_IPNetworkConnection.first_instance(key="Name", value="eth0")
vs.
eth0 = cimv2.LMI_IPNetworkConnection.first_instance({"Name" : "eth0"})
The main reason, why we switched to this is: there can be more filter elements present:
active_ifs = cimv2.LMI_IPNetworkConnection.instances({"EnabledDefault" : 2, "OperatingStatus" : 16})
Do we need to use the magic numbers, or can we use something like "OperatingStatus" : on ?
That's a major piece of usability. In the python-world, we probably want this to be represented by something like an enum:
OperatingStatus.ON OperatingStatus.OFF
etc.