[Sblim-devel] NPI compilation issues

[Jim M. <Jam...@Su...>]

Hello,
  I am looking at adding a port to the SBLIM NPI so that it will work 
with the Sun WBEM Services (and our open source one), but I've hit a 
couple of problems which I would like some information on.  I am using 
npi 0.9.2 and using the Sun 'cc' compiler (version 5.3), I've hit two 
problems in npi.h, in there there is the following enum

typedef enum {
  CIM_INTEGER,
  CIM_STRING,
  CIM_REF,
} CIMType;

Notice the ',' after "CIM_REF" - this causes a compile warning with the 
Sun cc compiler ('Expected identifier instead of "}"')

Additionally the METHOD_STRUCT causes lots of "String literal converted 
to char* in initialization" because the 'methodName' and 'Signature' 
members are declared as 'char*' and not 'const char*'.

Lastly in the sample C provider the 'createInstance' function calls 
"CIMObjectPathNew" passing the CIMInstance as the second parameter - the 
Sun cc compiler complains because that function expects a char* as the 
second parameter.  Shouldn't this be calling 'CIMObjectPathFromCIMInstance'?

The main question I have, is if I make the above changes, would this 
adversely affect the other implementations in any way?  I can work 
around these, but figured I'd ask if it would be ok to modify them.

Thanks
-Jim