Kaitlin Rupert wrote:
Dan Smith wrote:
> KR> Oops, yes. I meant the pool_to_sys() side. =)
>
> Well, that is less of a problem I'd say. We don't really have the
> same issue of checking for a superclass where a subset of the children
> would be invalid parameters to the association, right? That's the
> root of the problem with the other direction.
>
> We could certainly look up an instance of the pool they're asking
> about and check their reference. I'm not sure it really matters as
> much as something like a GetInstance though, because the answer is
> always the same, no matter what pool they ask about. If someone
> deleted a pool between when they got a reference and when they asked
> about the host system for that pool, then we'd fail the association
> even though we already knew the answer and the answer is valid.
>
> Depends on your interpretation of CIM principles I suppose :)
>
> KR> Is there a defined CIM way for handling properties? I mostly
> KR> asked because I don't know much about them.
>
> I'm not sure what the policy is for property filtering and if keys
> can't be filtered. Something to revisit when we actually implement
> support for such, I'd say :)
Well said - good points. =)
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Kaitlin Rupert
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