Re: [pywbem-devel] CIMOM local access

[Tim P. <tp...@hp...>]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 15:14 -0700, Bart Whiteley wrote:
> A couple of features were recently added to PyWBEM:
> - Support for Pegasus Local authentication (OpenWBEM local
> authentication was already present).
> - Support for connecting to a CIMOM over a unix domain socket (UDS).
> 
> These two features are orthogonal.  You can use username/password
> authentication or Local authentication with either UDS or TCP.

Very cool.  I had local authentication and the UDS transports confused
in my mind so this is a nice summary of both features.

[...]

> Comments?

I thought there was a lot of implicit behaviour in the various options
you laid out.  How about using UDS only when it's explicitly asked
for?  

Here's what I had in mind:

        def WBEMUDSConnection(url, creds = None):
            # return UDS connection...
        
        def OpenWBEMUDSConnection(creds = None):
           return WBEMUDSConnection('/var/run/ow/socket', creds)
        
        def OpenPegasusUDSCOnnection(creds = None):
            return WBEMUDSConnection('/var/run/tog-pegasus/socket',
        creds)
        
        def WBEMConnection(url, creds):
        
          if url.startswith('file://'):
            return WBEMUDSConnection(url[7:], creds)
        
Maybe you can think of some better function names.  (-:


Tim.