Re: [Sblim-devel] authoring providers

[Thomas S. <ts...@al...>]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:08:19 -0600
David Heller wrote:

> The CMPI Technical Standard 2.0 document you mention really is
> the definitive API reference.

Thanks for the response. One thing I'm trying to reconcile from that
document versus what I'm seeing is the MI function signatures. Version
1 of the doc says that MI factories are expected to take the form

<mi_name>_Create<mi-type*>MI() or Generic_Create<mi-type*>MI()

and version 2 says:

<mi_name>_Create_<mi-type*>MI() or Generic_Create_<mi-type*>MI()

*where mi-type is Instance, Association, Property, Method, or Indication

This also jives with what I see in sfcb's source file support.c in the
functions getFixedEntryPoint() and getGenericEntryPoint(). However, I
have yet to find such a function in any of the sources for a number of
provider modules I have been looking at. 

Maybe the registration process is specifying alternative names for
entry points? These function tables have to get initialized somehow.
Anyway, time to call it a day.

-- 
C. Thomas Stover
Sr. Software Engineer
Alert Logic, Inc.