4.2. CIM objects¶
CIM objects are local representations of CIM instances, classes, properties, etc., as Python objects. They are used as input to and output from WBEM operations:
CIM object | Purpose |
---|---|
CIMInstanceName |
Instance path of a CIM instance |
CIMInstance |
CIM instance |
CIMClassName |
Name of a CIM class, optionally with class path |
CIMClass |
CIM class |
CIMProperty |
CIM property, both as property value in a CIM instance and as property declaration in a CIM class |
CIMMethod |
CIM method declaration in a CIM class |
CIMParameter |
CIM parameter, both as a parameter value in a method invocation and as a parameter declaration in a CIM method declaration in a CIM class |
CIMQualifier |
CIM qualifier value |
CIMQualifierDeclaration |
CIM qualifier type/declaration |
4.2.1. Putting CIM objects in sets¶
Using sets for holding the result of WBEM operations is not uncommon, because that allows comparison of results without regard to the (undefined) order in which the objects are returned.
CIM objects are mutable and unchanged-hashable. This requires some caution when putting them in sets, or using them in any other way that relies on their hash values.
The caution that is needed is that the public attributes, and therefore the state of the CIM objects, must not change as long as they are a member of a set, or used in any other way that relies on their hash values.
The following example shows what happens if a CIM object is modified while being a member of a set:
import pywbem
s = set()
# Create CIM object c1 and show its identity and hash value:
c1 = pywbem.CIMClass('C')
print(id(c1), hash(c1)) # (140362966049680, -7623128493967117119)
# Add c1 to the set and verify the set content:
s.add(c1)
print([id(c) for c in s]) # [140362966049680]
# Modify the c1 object; it now has changed its hash value:
c1.superclass = 'B'
print(id(c1), hash(c1)) # (140362966049680, 638672161836520435)
# Create a CIM object c2 with the same attribute values as c1, and show
# that they compare equal and that c2 has the same hash value as c1 now has:
c2 = pywbem.CIMClass('C', superclass='B')
print(c1 == c2) # True
print(id(c2), hash(c2)) # (140362970983696, 638672161836520435)
# Add c2 to the set and verify the set content:
s.add(c2)
print([id(c) for c in s]) # [140362966049680, 140362970983696] !!
At the end, the set contains both objects even though they have the same hash value. This is not what one would expect from set types.
The reason is that at the time the object c1 was added to the set, it had a different hash value, and the set uses the hash value it found at insertion time of its member for identifying the object. When the second object is added, it finds it has a yet unknown hash value, and adds it.
While the set type in this particular Python implementation was able to still look up the first member object even though its hash value has changed meanwhile, other collection types or other Python implementations may not be as forgiving and may not even be able to look up the object once its hash value has changed.
Therefore, always make sure that the public attributes of CIM objects that are put into a set remain unchanged while the object is in the set. The same applies to any other usage of CIM objects that relies on their hash values.
4.2.2. Order of CIM child objects¶
CIM objects have zero or more lists of child objects. For example, a CIM class (the parent object) has a list of CIM properties, CIM methods and CIM qualifiers (the child objects).
In pywbem, the parent CIM object allows initializing each list of child objects
via an init parameter. For example, the CIMClass
init method
has a parameter named properties
that allows specifying the CIM properties
of the CIM class.
Once the parent CIM object exists, each list of child objects can be modified
via a settable attribute. For example, the CIMClass
class has
a properties
attribute for its list of CIM properties.
For such attributes and init parameters that specify lists of child objects, pywbem supports a number of different ways the child objects can be specified.
Some of these ways preserve the order of child objects and some don’t.
This section uses CIM properties in CIM classes as an example, but it applies to all kinds of child objects in CIM objects.
The possible input objects for the properties
init parameter
and for the properties
attribute of
CIMClass
is described in the type
properties input object, and must be one of these objects:
- iterable of
CIMProperty
- iterable of tuple(key, value)
OrderedDict
with key and valuedict
with key and value (will not preserve order)
The keys are always the property names, and the values are always
CIMProperty
objects (at least when initializing classes).
Even though the OrderedDict
class preserves the order
of its items, intializing the dictionary with keyword arguments causes the
order of items to be lost before the dictionary is even initialized (before
Python 3.6). The only way to initialize a dictionary without loosing order of
items is by providing a list of tuples(key,value).
The following examples work but loose the order of properties in the class:
# Examples where order of properties in class is not as specified:
# Using an OrderedDict object, initialized with keyword arguments
# (before Python 3.6):
c1_props = OrderedDict(
Prop1=CIMProperty('Prop1', value='abc'),
Prop2=CIMProperty('Prop2', value=None, type='string'),
)
# Using a dict object, initialized with keyword arguments (This time
# specified using key:value notation):
c1_props = {
'Prop1': CIMProperty('Prop1', value='abc'),
'Prop2': CIMProperty('Prop2', value=None, type='string'),
}
# Using a dict object, initialized with list of tuple(key,value):
c1_props = dict([
('Prop1', CIMProperty('Prop1', value='abc')),
('Prop2', CIMProperty('Prop2', value=None, type='string')),
])
# Any of the above objects can be used to initialize the class properties:
c1 = CIMClass('CIM_Foo', properties=c1_props)
The following examples all preserve the order of properties in the class:
# Examples where order of properties in class is as specified:
# Using a list of CIMProperty objects (starting with pywbem 0.12):
c1_props = [
CIMProperty('Prop1', value='abc'),
CIMProperty('Prop2', value=None, type='string'),
]
# Using an OrderedDict object, initialized with list of tuple(key,value):
c1_props = OrderedDict([
('Prop1', CIMProperty('Prop1', value='abc')),
('Prop2', CIMProperty('Prop2', value=None, type='string')),
])
# Using a list of tuple(key,value):
c1_props = [
('Prop1', CIMProperty('Prop1', value='abc')),
('Prop2', CIMProperty('Prop2', value=None, type='string')),
]
# Any of the above objects can be used to initialize the class properties:
c1 = CIMClass('CIM_Foo', properties=c1_props)
4.2.3. NocaseDict¶
Class NocaseDict
is a dictionary implementation with case-insensitive but
case-preserving keys, and with preservation of the order of its items.
It is used for lists of child objects of CIM objects (e.g. the list of CIM properties in a CIM class, or the list of CIM parameters in a CIM method).
Users of pywbem will notice NocaseDict
objects only as a result of pywbem
functions. Users cannot create NocaseDict
objects.
Except for the case-insensitivity of its keys, it behaves like the built-in
OrderedDict
. Therefore, NocaseDict
is not
described in detail in this documentation.
4.2.4. CIMInstanceName¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMInstanceName
(classname, keybindings=None, host=None, namespace=None)[source]¶ A CIM instance path (aka CIM instance name).
A CIM instance path references a CIM instance in a CIM namespace in a WBEM server. Namespace and WBEM server may be unspecified.
Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
Parameters: - classname (string) –
Name of the creation class of the referenced instance.
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- keybindings (keybindings input object) – Keybindings for the instance path (that is, the key property values of the referenced instance).
- host (string) –
Host and optionally port of the WBEM server containing the CIM namespace of the referenced instance.
The format of the string must be:
host[:port]
The host can be specified in any of the usual formats:
- a short or fully qualified DNS hostname
- a literal (= dotted) IPv4 address
- a literal IPv6 address, formatted as defined in RFC3986
with the extensions for zone identifiers as defined in
RFC6874, supporting
-
(minus) for the delimiter before the zone ID string, as an additional choice to%25
.
None means that the WBEM server is unspecified, and the
host
attribute will also be None.The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- namespace (string) –
Name of the CIM namespace containing the referenced instance.
None means that the namespace is unspecified, and the
namespace
attribute will also be None.Leading and trailing slash characters will be stripped. The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
Raises: ValueError
– An error in the provided argument values.ValueError
– A keybinding value is None and the config variable pywbem.config.IGNORE_NULL_KEY_VALUE is FalseTypeError
– An error in the provided argument types.
Methods
copy
Return a new CIMInstanceName
object that is a copy of this CIM instance path.from_instance
Return a new CIMInstanceName
object from the key property values in a CIM instance and the key property definitions in a CIM class.from_wbem_uri
Return a new CIMInstanceName
object from the specified WBEM URI string.get
Return the value of a particular keybinding of this CIM instance path, or a default value. has_key
Return a boolean indicating whether this CIM instance path has a particular keybinding. items
Return the keybinding items as a tuple (name, value) of this CIM instance path. iteritems
Return an iterator through the keybinding items of this CIM instance path, where each item is a tuple of keybinding name and value. iterkeys
Return an iterator through the keybinding names of this CIM instance path. itervalues
Return an iterator through the keybinding values of this CIM instance path. keys
Return the keybinding names of this CIM instance path. to_wbem_uri
Return the (untyped) WBEM URI string of this CIM instance path. tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM instance path, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM instance path, as a unicode string. update
Update the keybindings of this CIM instance path. values
Return the keybinding values of this CIM instance path. Attributes
classname
Class name of this CIM instance path, identifying the creation class of the referenced instance. host
Host and optionally port of this CIM instance path, identifying the WBEM server of the referenced instance. keybindings
Keybindings of this CIM instance path, identifying the key properties of the referenced instance. namespace
Namespace name of this CIM instance path, identifying the namespace of the referenced instance. Details
-
classname
¶ Class name of this CIM instance path, identifying the creation class of the referenced instance.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
keybindings
¶ Keybindings of this CIM instance path, identifying the key properties of the referenced instance.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one keybinding, with:
- key (unicode string): Keybinding name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (CIM data type or number): Keybinding value.
None is not allowed by default, consistent with DSP0004.
This default behavior can be changed via the config variable
pywbem.config.IGNORE_NULL_KEY_VALUE
.
The order of keybindings in the instance path is preserved.
The keybinding name may be None in objects of this class that are created by pywbem, in the special case a WBEM server has returned an instance path with an unnamed keybinding (i.e. a KEYVALUE or VALUE.REFERENCE element without a parent KEYBINDINGS element). This is allowed as per DSP0201. When creating objects of this class, it is not allowed to specify unnamed keybindings, i.e. the keybinding name must not be None.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current keybindings to be replaced with the new keybindings. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.When setting a keybinding value, it will be preserved whether the input value was a CIM data type, a number or None. If the input value was a CIM data type, the CIM type of the keybinding value is known and this will cause the TYPE attribute in the KEYVALUE element of the CIM-XML representation to be present.
The keybindings can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. The provided input value must be specified as a CIM data type or as number:
instpath = CIMInstanceName(...) v1 = "abc" # must be a CIM data type or Python number type instpath.keybindings['k1'] = v1 # Set "k1" to v1 (add if needed) v1 = instpath.keybindings['k1'] # Access value of "k1" del instpath.keybindings['k1'] # Delete "k1" from the inst. path
In addition, the keybindings can be accessed and manipulated one by one by using the entire
CIMInstanceName
object like a dictionary. Again, the provided input value must be specified as a CIM data type or as number:instpath = CIMInstanceName(...) v2 = 42 # must be a CIM data type or Python number type instpath['k2'] = v2 # Set "k2" to v2 (add if needed) v2 = instpath['k2'] # Access value of "k2" del instpath['k2'] # Delete "k2" from the instance path
Type: NocaseDict
-
namespace
¶ Namespace name of this CIM instance path, identifying the namespace of the referenced instance.
None means that the namespace is unspecified.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
host
¶ Host and optionally port of this CIM instance path, identifying the WBEM server of the referenced instance.
For details about the string format, see the same-named init parameter of
this class
.None means that the host and port are unspecified.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter.
Type: unicode string
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMInstanceName
objects.The equality is based on their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- host
- namespace
- classname
- keybindings
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMInstanceName
object.
-
__str__
()[source]¶ Return the WBEM URI string of this CIM instance path.
The returned WBEM URI string is in the historical format returned by
to_wbem_uri()
.For new code, it is recommended that the standard format is used; it is returned by
to_wbem_uri()
as the default format.Examples (for the historical format):
With host and namespace:
//acme.com/cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1"
Without host but with namespace:
cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1"
Without host and without namespace:
CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1"
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM instance path, that is suitable for debugging.
The key bindings will be ordered by their names in the result.
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMInstanceName
object that is a copy of this CIM instance path.This is a middle-deep copy; any mutable types in attributes except the following are copied, so besides these exceptions, modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa. The following mutable types are not copied and are therefore shared between original and copy:
- Any mutable object types (see CIM data types) in the
keybindings
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself)
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.- Any mutable object types (see CIM data types) in the
-
update
(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶ Update the keybindings of this CIM instance path.
Existing keybindings will be updated, and new keybindings will be added.
Parameters: - *args (list) – Keybindings for updating the keybindings of the instance path,
specified as positional arguments. Each positional argument must
be a tuple (key, value), where key and value are described for
setting the
keybindings
property. - **kwargs (dict) – Keybindings for updating the keybindings of the instance path,
specified as keyword arguments. The name and value of the keyword
arguments are described as key and value for setting the
keybindings
property.
- *args (list) – Keybindings for updating the keybindings of the instance path,
specified as positional arguments. Each positional argument must
be a tuple (key, value), where key and value are described for
setting the
-
has_key
(key)[source]¶ Return a boolean indicating whether this CIM instance path has a particular keybinding.
Parameters: key (string) – Name of the keybinding (in any lexical case). Returns: Boolean indicating whether this CIM instance path has the keybinding. Return type: bool
-
get
(key, default=None)[source]¶ Return the value of a particular keybinding of this CIM instance path, or a default value.
New in pywbem 0.8.
Parameters: - key (string) – Name of the keybinding (in any lexical case).
- default (CIM data type) – Default value that is returned if a keybinding with the specified name does not exist in the instance path.
Returns: Value of the keybinding, or the default value.
Return type:
-
keys
()[source]¶ Return the keybinding names of this CIM instance path.
The type of the returned object is consistent with the behavior of the corresponding method of the built-in dict class: On Python 2, a list is returned; on Python 3, a dictionary view is returned.
The keybinding names have their original lexical case and the order of keybindings is preserved.
-
values
()[source]¶ Return the keybinding values of this CIM instance path.
The type of the returned object is consistent with the behavior of the corresponding method of the built-in dict class: On Python 2, a list is returned; on Python 3, a dictionary view is returned.
The order of keybindings is preserved.
-
items
()[source]¶ Return the keybinding items as a tuple (name, value) of this CIM instance path.
The type of the returned object is consistent with the behavior of the corresponding method of the built-in dict class: On Python 2, a list is returned; on Python 3, a dictionary view is returned.
The keybinding names have their original lexical case and the order of keybindings is preserved.
-
iterkeys
()[source]¶ Return an iterator through the keybinding names of this CIM instance path.
The keybinding names have their original lexical case, and the order of keybindings is preserved.
Deprecated: This method is deprecated on Python 3 and will be removed in a future version of pywbem, consistent with the built-in dict class on Python 3. Use the
keys()
method instead.
-
itervalues
()[source]¶ Return an iterator through the keybinding values of this CIM instance path.
The order of keybindings is preserved.
Deprecated: This method is deprecated on Python 3 and will be removed in a future version of pywbem, consistent with the built-in dict class on Python 3. Use the
values()
method instead.
-
iteritems
()[source]¶ Return an iterator through the keybinding items of this CIM instance path, where each item is a tuple of keybinding name and value.
The keybinding names have their original lexical case, and the order of keybindings is preserved.
Deprecated: This method is deprecated on Python 3 and will be removed in a future version of pywbem, consistent with the built-in dict class on Python 3. Use the
items()
method instead.
-
tocimxml
(ignore_host=False, ignore_namespace=False)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM instance path, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
If the instance path has no namespace specified or if ignore_namespace is True, the returned CIM-XML representation is an INSTANCENAME element consistent with DSP0201.
Otherwise, if the instance path has no host specified or if ignore_host is True, the returned CIM-XML representation is a LOCALINSTANCEPATH element consistent with DSP0201.
Otherwise, the returned CIM-XML representation is a INSTANCEPATH element consistent with DSP0201.
The order of keybindings in the returned CIM-XML representation is preserved from the
CIMInstanceName
object.Parameters: Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None, ignore_host=False, ignore_namespace=False)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM instance path, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: - indent (string or integer) –
None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
- ignore_host (
bool
) – Ignore the host of the instance path, even if a host is specified. - ignore_namespace (
bool
) – Ignore the namespace and host of the instance path, even if a namespace and/or host is specified.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the value, as a unicode string.
- indent (string or integer) –
-
static
from_wbem_uri
(wbem_uri)[source]¶ Return a new
CIMInstanceName
object from the specified WBEM URI string.New in pywbem 0.12.
The WBEM URI string must be a CIM instance path in untyped WBEM URI format, as defined in DSP0207, with these extensions:
- DSP0207 restricts the namespace types (URI schemes) to be one
of
http
,https
,cimxml-wbem
, orcimxml-wbems
. Pywbem tolerates any namespace type, but issues aUserWarning
if it is not one of the namespace types defined in DSP0207. - DSP0207 requires a slash before the namespace name. For local WBEM URIs (no namespace type, no authority), that slash is the first character of the WBEM URI. For historical reasons, pywbem tolerates a missing leading slash for local WBEM URIs. Note that pywbem requires the slash (consistent with DSP0207) when the WBEM URI is not local.
- DSP0207 requires a colon before the class name. For historical reasons, pywbem tolerates a missing colon before the class name, if it would have been the first character of the string.
- DSP0207 requires datetime values in keybindings to be
surrounded by double quotes. For historical reasons, pywbem tolerates
datetime values that are not surrounded by double quotes, but issues
a
UserWarning
. - DSP0207 does not allow the special float values INF, -INF, and NaN in WBEM URIs (according to realValue in DSP0004). However, the CIM-XML protocol supports representation of these special values, so to be on the safe side, pywbem supports these special values as keybindings in WBEM URIs.
Keybindings that are references are supported, recursively.
CIM instance paths in the typed WBEM URI format defined in DSP0207 are not supported.
The untyped WBEM URI format defined in DSP0207 has the following limitations when interpreting a WBEM URI string:
- It cannot distinguish string-typed keys with a value that is a datetime value from datetime-typed keys with such a value. Pywbem treats such values as datetime-typed keys.
- It cannot distinguish string-typed keys with a value that is a WBEM URI from reference-typed keys with such a value. Pywbem treats such values as reference-typed keys.
Examples:
https://jdd:test@acme.com:5989/cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1" //jdd:test@acme.com:5989/cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1" /cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1" cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1" /:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1" :CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1" CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1" http://acme.com/root/cimv2:CIM_ComputerSystem.CreationClassName="ACME_CS",Name="sys1" /:CIM_SubProfile.Main="/:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.1"",Sub="/:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="acme.2""
Parameters: wbem_uri (string) – WBEM URI for an instance path. Returns: The instance path created from the specified WBEM URI string. Return type: CIMInstanceName
Raises: ValueError
– Invalid WBEM URI format for an instance path. This includes typed WBEM URIs.- DSP0207 restricts the namespace types (URI schemes) to be one
of
-
to_wbem_uri
(format='standard')[source]¶ Return the (untyped) WBEM URI string of this CIM instance path.
The returned WBEM URI contains its components as follows:
- it does not contain a namespace type (URI scheme).
- it contains an authority (host) component according to the
host
attribute, if that is not None. Otherwise, it does not contain the authority component. - it contains a namespace component according to the
namespace
attribute, if that is not None. Otherwise, it does not contain the namespace component. - it contains a class name component according to the
classname
attribute. - it contains keybindings according to the
keybindings
attribute, with the order of keybindings in alphabetical order of the keybinding names, and the lexical case of keybinding names preserved (except when using the format “canonical”).
Note that when you do not want some of these components to show up in the resulting WBEM URI string, you can set them to None before calling this method.
Except when using the format “canonical”, this method should not be used to compare instance paths for equality: DSP0004 defines defines several components of an instance path to be compared case insensitively, including the names of keybindings. In addition, it defines that the order of keybindings in instance paths does not matter for the comparison. Therefore, two instance paths that are considered equal according to DSP0004 may not have equal WBEM URI strings as returned by this method.
Instead, equality of instance paths represented by
CIMInstanceName
objects should be determined by using the==
operator, which performs the comparison conformant to DSP0004. If you have WBEM URI strings without the correspondingCIMInstanceName
object, such an object can be created by using the static methodfrom_wbem_uri()
.Parameters: format (string) – Format for the generated WBEM URI string, using one of the following values:
"standard"
- Standard format that is conformant to untyped WBEM URIs for instance paths defined in DSP0207. The order of keybindings is in alphabetical order of the original keybinding names."canonical"
- Like"standard"
, except that the following items have been converted to lower case: host, namespace, classname, and the names of any keybindings. The order of keybindings is in alphabetical order of the lower-cased keybinding names. This format guarantees that two instance paths that are considered equal according to DSP0004 result in equal WBEM URI strings. Therefore, the returned WBEM URI is suitable to be used as a key in dictionaries of CIM instances."cimobject"
- Format for the CIMObject header field in CIM-XML messages for representing instance paths (used internally, see DSP0200)."historical"
- Historical format for WBEM URIs (used by__str__()
; should not be used by new code). The historical format has the following differences to the standard format:- If the host component is not present, the slash after the host is also omitted. In the standard format, that slash is always present.
- If the namespace component is not present, the colon after the namespace is also omitted. In the standard format, that colon is always present.
Keybindings that are references use the specified format recursively.
Examples:
With host and namespace, standard format:
//ACME.com/cimv2/Test:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="Acme.1"
With host and namespace, canonical format:
//acme.com/cimv2/test:cim_registeredprofile.instanceid="Acme.1"
Without host but with namespace, standard format:
/cimv2/Test:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="Acme.1"
Without host but with namespace, canonical format:
/cimv2/test:cim_registeredprofile.instanceid="Acme.1"
Without host and without namespace, standard format:
/:CIM_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="Acme.1"
Returns: Untyped WBEM URI of the CIM instance path, in the specified format.
Return type: Raises: TypeError
– Invalid type in keybindingsValueError
– Invalid format argument
-
static
from_instance
(class_, instance, namespace=None, host=None, strict=False)[source]¶ Return a new
CIMInstanceName
object from the key property values in a CIM instance and the key property definitions in a CIM class.If the strict parameter is False, and a property value does not exist in the instance that entry is not included in the constructed CIMInstanceName
If the strict parameter is True all key properties in the class_ must exist in the instance or a ValueError exception is raised.
Parameters: - class_ (
CIMClass
) –The CIM class with the key properties.
In strict mode, that class and the instance must contain all key properties that are required to create the
CIMInstanceName
object. Thus, for example, if the class were retrieved from a server, generally, the LocalOnly parameter in the request should be False to assure that superclass properties are retrieved and IncludeQualifiers parameter should be set to True to assure that qualifiers are retrieved.In non-strict mode, that class and instance may have missing key properties. Any missing key properties will result in missing key bindings in the created
CIMInstanceName
object.The specified class does not need to be the creation class of the instance. Thus, it could be a superclass as long as it has the required key properties.
- instance (
CIMInstance
) – The CIM instance with the key property values. - namespace (string) – Namespace to include in the created
CIMInstanceName
or None. - host (string) – Host name to include in created
CIMInstanceName
or None. - strict (
bool
) – Strict mode (see description of class_ parameter).
Returns: CIMInstanceName
built from the key properties in the class_ parameter using the key property values in the instance parameter.Return type: Raises: ValueError
– The strict attribute is True and a key property does not exist in the instance.- class_ (
- classname (string) –
4.2.5. CIMInstance¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMInstance
(classname, properties=None, qualifiers=None, path=None)[source]¶ A representation of a CIM instance in a CIM namespace in a WBEM server, optionally including its instance path.
Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
Parameters: - classname (string) –
Name of the creation class for the instance.
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- properties (properties input object) –
The property values for the instance.
If the specified path has keybindings that correspond to these properties, the values of these keybindings will be updated to match the property values.
- qualifiers (qualifiers input object) –
The qualifiers for the instance.
Note that DSP0200 has deprecated the presence of qualifiers on CIM instances.
- path (
CIMInstanceName
) –Instance path for the instance.
The provided object will be copied before being stored in the
CIMInstance
object.If this path has keybindings that correspond to the specified properties, the values of the keybindings in (the copy of) this path will be updated to match the property values.
None means that the instance path is unspecified, and the
path
attribute will also be None.
Raises: ValueError
– classname is None, a property or qualifier name is None, or a property or qualifier name does not match its dictionary key.TypeError
– a numeric Python type was used for a property or qualifier value.
Methods
copy
Return a new CIMInstance
object that is a copy of this CIM instance.from_class
Return a new CIMInstance
object from specified key property values and from the key property definitions in a class.get
Return the value of a particular property of this CIM instance, or a default value. has_key
Return a boolean indicating whether this CIM instance has a particular property. items
Return the properties of this CIM instance, where each item is a tuple of property name and value (the value
attribute of theCIMProperty
object).iteritems
Return an iterator through the properties of this CIM instance, where each item is a tuple of property name and value. iterkeys
Return an iterator through the property names of this CIM instance. itervalues
Return an iterator through the property values of this CIM instance. keys
Return the property names of this CIM instance. tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM instance, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM instance, as a unicode string. tomof
Return a MOF string with the specification of this CIM instance. update
Update the properties of this CIM instance. update_existing
Update the values of already existing properties of this CIM instance. values
Return the property values (the value
attribute of theCIMProperty
object) of this CIM instance.Attributes
classname
Name of the creation class of this CIM instance. path
Instance path of this CIM instance. properties
Properties of this CIM instance. qualifiers
Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM instance. Details
-
classname
¶ Name of the creation class of this CIM instance.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
properties
¶ Properties of this CIM instance.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one property value, with:
- key (unicode string): Property name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMProperty
): Property value.
The order of properties in the CIM instance is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current CIM properties to be replaced with the new properties, and will also cause the values of corresponding keybindings in the instance path (if set) to be updated. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter. Note that the property value may be specified as a CIM data type or as a
CIMProperty
object.The CIM property values can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. In that case, the provided input value must be a
CIMProperty
object. A corresponding keybinding in the instance path (if set) will not (!) be updated in this case:inst = CIMInstance(...) p1 = CIMProperty('p1', ...) # must be CIMProperty inst.properties['p1'] = p1 # Set "p1" to p1 (add if needed) p1 = inst.properties['p1'] # Access "p1" del inst.properties['p1'] # Delete "p1" from the instance
In addition, the CIM properties can be accessed and manipulated one by one by using the entire
CIMInstance
object like a dictionary. In that case, the provided input value may be specified as a CIM data type or as aCIMProperty
object. The value of a corresponding keybinding in the instance path (if set) will be updated to the new property value:inst = CIMInstance(...) p2 = Uint32(...) # may be CIM data type or CIMProperty inst['p2'] = p2 # Set "p2" to p2 (add if needed) p2 = inst['p2'] # Access "p2" del inst['p2'] # Delete "p2" from the instance
Type: NocaseDict
-
qualifiers
¶ Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM instance.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one qualifier value, with:
- key (unicode string): Qualifier name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMQualifier
): Qualifier value.
The order of qualifiers in the CIM instance is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current qualifiers to be replaced with the new qualifiers. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.The qualifier values can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary.
Note that DSP0200 has deprecated the presence of qualifier values on CIM instances.
Type: NocaseDict
-
path
¶ Instance path of this CIM instance.
None means that the instance path is unspecified.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: CIMInstanceName
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMInstance
objects.The equality is based on some of their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- classname
- path
- properties
- qualifiers
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMInstance
object.
-
__str__
()[source]¶ Return a short string representation of this CIM instance, for human consumption.
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM instance, that is suitable for debugging.
The properties and qualifiers will be ordered by their names in the result.
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMInstance
object that is a copy of this CIM instance.This is a middle-deep copy; any mutable types in attributes except the following are copied, so besides these exceptions, modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa. The following mutable types are not copied and are therefore shared between original and copy:
- The
CIMProperty
objects in theproperties
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself) - The
CIMQualifier
objects in thequalifiers
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself)
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.- The
-
update
(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶ Update the properties of this CIM instance.
Existing properties will be updated, and new properties will be added.
Parameters: - *args (list) – Properties for updating the properties of the instance, specified
as positional arguments. Each positional argument must be a tuple
(key, value), where key and value are described for setting the
properties
property. - **kwargs (dict) – Properties for updating the properties of the instance, specified
as keyword arguments. The name and value of the keyword arguments
are described as key and value for setting the
properties
property.
- *args (list) – Properties for updating the properties of the instance, specified
as positional arguments. Each positional argument must be a tuple
(key, value), where key and value are described for setting the
-
update_existing
(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶ Update the values of already existing properties of this CIM instance.
From the specified new properties, only properties that already exist in the instance will be updated. New properties will not be added to the instance; they will be ignored without further notice.
Parameters: - *args (list) –
New properties, specified as positional arguments. Each positional argument must be one of:
- an iterable of tuple (name, value), where each tuple specifies the name of the property to be updated and its new value.
- an object with an
items()
method that iterates through tuple (name, value), where each tuple specifies the name of the property to be updated and its new value.Examples of such objects are
CIMInstanceName
(where its keybindings will be used as new properties) orCIMInstance
(where its properties will be used as new properties).
- **kwargs (dict) – New properties, specified as keyword arguments. Each keyword argument specifies one new property, where the argument name is the name of the property to be updated and the argument value is its new value.
- *args (list) –
-
has_key
(key)[source]¶ Return a boolean indicating whether this CIM instance has a particular property.
Parameters: key (string) – Name of the property (in any lexical case). Returns: Boolean indicating whether the instance has the property. Return type: bool
-
get
(key, default=None)[source]¶ Return the value of a particular property of this CIM instance, or a default value.
New in pywbem 0.8.
Parameters: - key (string) – Name of the property (in any lexical case).
- default (CIM data type) – Default value that is returned if a property with the specified name does not exist in the instance.
Returns: Value of the property, or the default value.
Return type:
-
keys
()[source]¶ Return the property names of this CIM instance.
The type of the returned object is consistent with the behavior of the corresponding method of the built-in dict class: On Python 2, a list is returned; on Python 3, a dictionary view is returned.
The property names have their original lexical case, and the order of properties is preserved.
-
values
()[source]¶ Return the property values (the
value
attribute of theCIMProperty
object) of this CIM instance.The type of the returned object is consistent with the behavior of the corresponding method of the built-in dict class: On Python 2, a list is returned; on Python 3, a dictionary view is returned.
The order of properties is preserved.
-
items
()[source]¶ Return the properties of this CIM instance, where each item is a tuple of property name and value (the
value
attribute of theCIMProperty
object).The type of the returned object is consistent with the behavior of the corresponding method of the built-in dict class: On Python 2, a list is returned; on Python 3, a dictionary view is returned.
The property names have their original lexical case, and the order of properties is preserved.
-
iterkeys
()[source]¶ Return an iterator through the property names of this CIM instance.
The property names have their original lexical case, and the order of properties is preserved.
Deprecated: This method is deprecated on Python 3 and will be removed in a future version of pywbem, consistent with the built-in dict class on Python 3. Use the
keys()
method instead.
-
itervalues
()[source]¶ Return an iterator through the property values of this CIM instance.
The property values are the
value
attributes of theCIMProperty
objects.The order of properties is preserved.
Deprecated: This method is deprecated on Python 3 and will be removed in a future version of pywbem, consistent with the built-in dict class on Python 3. Use the
values()
method instead.
-
iteritems
()[source]¶ Return an iterator through the properties of this CIM instance, where each item is a tuple of property name and value.
The property values are the
value
attributes of theCIMProperty
objects.The property names have their original lexical case, and the order of properties is preserved.
Deprecated: This method is deprecated on Python 3 and will be removed in a future version of pywbem, consistent with the built-in dict class on Python 3. Use the
items()
method instead.
-
tocimxml
(ignore_path=False)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM instance, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
If the instance has no instance path specified or if ignore_path is True, the returned CIM-XML representation is an INSTANCE element consistent with DSP0201. This is the required element for representing embedded instances.
Otherwise, if the instance path of the instance has no namespace specified, the returned CIM-XML representation is an VALUE.NAMEDINSTANCE element consistent with DSP0201.
Otherwise, if the instance path of the instance has no host specified, the returned CIM-XML representation is a VALUE.OBJECTWITHLOCALPATH element consistent with DSP0201.
Otherwise, the returned CIM-XML representation is a VALUE.INSTANCEWITHPATH element consistent with DSP0201.
The order of properties and qualifiers in the returned CIM-XML representation is preserved from the
CIMInstance
object.Parameters: ignore_path ( bool
) – Ignore the path of the instance, even if a path is specified.Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None, ignore_path=False)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM instance, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: - indent (string or integer) –
None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
- ignore_path (
bool
) – Ignore the path of the instance, even if a path is specified.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the object, as a unicode string.
- indent (string or integer) –
-
tomof
(maxline=80)[source]¶ Return a MOF string with the specification of this CIM instance.
The returned MOF string conforms to the
instanceDeclaration
ABNF rule defined in DSP0004, with the following limitations:- Pywbem does not support instance aliases, so the returned MOF string does not define an alias name for the instance.
- Even though pywbem supports qualifiers on
CIMInstance
objects, and onCIMProperty
objects that are used as property values within an instance, the returned MOF string does not contain any qualifier values on the instance or on its property values.
The order of properties and qualifiers is preserved.
Parameters: maxline (integer) – Maximum line length. Returns: MOF string. Return type: unicode string
-
static
from_class
(klass, namespace=None, property_values=None, include_missing_properties=True, include_path=True, include_class_origin=False)[source]¶ Return a new
CIMInstance
object from specified key property values and from the key property definitions in a class.The properties in the returned instance do not have any qualifiers.
Parameters: - klass (
CIMClass
) – CIMClass from which the instance will be constructed. This class must include qualifiers and should include properties from any superclasses in the model insure it includes all properties that are to be built into the instance, in particular any key properties if the include+path parameter is True. Seefrom_class()
for further requirements on the class. - namespace (string) – Namespace to be included in the path component of the returned CIMInstance if include_path parameter is True.
- property_values (
dict
or NocaseDict) – Dictionary containing name/value pairs where the names are the names of properties in the class and the properties are the property values to be set into the instance properties. The values must match the type defined for the property in the class. If a property is in the property_values dictionary but not in the class a ValueError exception is raised. Not all properties in the class need to be defined in property_values. - include_missing_properties –
Determines if properties not in the property_values parameter are included in the instance.
If True all properties from the class are included in the new instance including those not defined in property_values parameter with with the default value defined in the class if one is defined, or otherwise None”.
If False only properties in the property_values parameter are included in the new instance.
Returns: A CIM instance created from klass and property_values parameters with the defined properties and optionally the path component set.
No qualifiers are included in the returned instance and the existence of the class origin attribute depends on the include_class_origin parameter.
All other attributes of each property are the same as the corresponding class property.
Return type: Raises: ValueError
– Conflicts between the class properties and- property_values parameter or the instance does
- not include all key properties defined in the class.
TypeError
– Mismatch between types of the property values in- property_values parameter and the property type in the
- corresponding class property
- klass (
- classname (string) –
4.2.6. CIMClassName¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMClassName
(classname, host=None, namespace=None)[source]¶ A CIM class path (aka CIM class name).
A CIM class path references a CIM class in a CIM namespace in a WBEM server. Namespace and WBEM server may be unspecified.
Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
Parameters: - classname (string) –
Class name of the referenced class.
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- host (string) –
Host and optionally port of the WBEM server containing the CIM namespace of the referenced class.
The format of the string must be:
host[:port]
The host can be specified in any of the usual formats:
- a short or fully qualified DNS hostname
- a literal (= dotted) IPv4 address
- a literal IPv6 address, formatted as defined in RFC3986
with the extensions for zone identifiers as defined in
RFC6874, supporting
-
(minus) for the delimiter before the zone ID string, as an additional choice to%25
.
None means that the WBEM server is unspecified, and the
host
attribute will also be None.The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- namespace (string) –
Name of the CIM namespace containing the referenced class.
None means that the namespace is unspecified, and the
namespace
attribute will also be None.Leading and trailing slash characters will be stripped. The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
Raises: ValueError
– classname is None.Methods
copy
Return a new CIMClassName
object that is a copy of this CIM class path.from_wbem_uri
Return a new CIMClassName
object from the specified WBEM URI string.to_wbem_uri
Return the (untyped) WBEM URI string of this CIM class path. tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM class path, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM class path, as a unicode string. Attributes
classname
Class name of this CIM class path, identifying the referenced class. host
Host and optionally port of this CIM class path, identifying the WBEM server of the referenced class. namespace
Namespace name of this CIM class path, identifying the namespace of the referenced class. Details
-
classname
¶ Class name of this CIM class path, identifying the referenced class.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
namespace
¶ Namespace name of this CIM class path, identifying the namespace of the referenced class.
None means that the namespace is unspecified.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
host
¶ Host and optionally port of this CIM class path, identifying the WBEM server of the referenced class.
For details about the string format, see the same-named init parameter of
this class
.None means that the host and port are unspecified.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter.
Type: unicode string
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMClassName
object that is a copy of this CIM class path.Objects of this class have no mutable types in any attributes, so modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa.
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMClassName
objects.The equality is based on their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- host
- namespace
- classname
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMClassName
object.
-
__str__
()[source]¶ Return a WBEM URI string of this CIM class path.
The returned WBEM URI string is in the historical format returned by
to_wbem_uri()
.For new code, it is recommended that the standard format is used; it is returned by
to_wbem_uri()
as the default format.If you want to access the class name, use the
classname
attribute, instead of relying on the coincidence that the historical format of a WBEM URI without host and namespace happens to be the class name.Examples (for the historical format):
With host and namespace:
//acme.com/cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile
Without host but with namespace:
cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile
Without host and without namespace:
CIM_RegisteredProfile
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM class path, that is suitable for debugging.
-
tocimxml
(ignore_host=False, ignore_namespace=False)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM class path, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
If the class path has no namespace specified or if ignore_namespace is True, the returned CIM-XML representation is a CLASSNAME element consistent with DSP0201.
Otherwise, if the class path has no host specified or if ignore_host is True, the returned CIM-XML representation is a LOCALCLASSPATH element consistent with DSP0201.
Otherwise, the returned CIM-XML representation is a CLASSPATH element consistent with DSP0201.
Parameters: Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None, ignore_host=False, ignore_namespace=False)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM class path, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: - indent (string or integer) –
None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
- ignore_host (
bool
) – Ignore the host of the class path, even if a host is specified. - ignore_namespace (
bool
) – Ignore the namespace and host of the class path, even if a namespace and/or host is specified.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the object, as a unicode string.
- indent (string or integer) –
-
static
from_wbem_uri
(wbem_uri)[source]¶ Return a new
CIMClassName
object from the specified WBEM URI string.New in pywbem 0.12.
The WBEM URI string must be a CIM class path in untyped WBEM URI format, as defined in DSP0207, with these extensions:
- DSP0207 restricts the namespace types (URI schemes) to be one
of
http
,https
,cimxml-wbem
, orcimxml-wbems
. Pywbem tolerates any namespace type, but issues aUserWarning
if it is not one of the namespace types defined in DSP0207. - DSP0207 requires a slash before the namespace name. For local WBEM URIs (no namespace type, no authority), that slash is the first character of the WBEM URI. For historical reasons, pywbem tolerates a missing leading slash for local WBEM URIs. Note that pywbem requires the slash (consistent with DSP0207) when the WBEM URI is not local.
- DSP0207 requires a colon before the class name. For historical reasons, pywbem tolerates a missing colon before the class name, if it would have been the first character of the string.
CIM class paths in the typed WBEM URI format defined in DSP0207 are not supported.
Examples:
https://jdd:test@acme.com:5989/cimv2/test:CIM_RegisteredProfile http://acme.com/root/cimv2:CIM_ComputerSystem http:/root/cimv2:CIM_ComputerSystem /root/cimv2:CIM_ComputerSystem root/cimv2:CIM_ComputerSystem /:CIM_ComputerSystem :CIM_ComputerSystem CIM_ComputerSystem
Parameters: wbem_uri (string) – WBEM URI for a class path. Returns: The class path created from the specified WBEM URI string. Return type: CIMClassName
Raises: ValueError
– Invalid WBEM URI format for a class path. This includes typed WBEM URIs.- DSP0207 restricts the namespace types (URI schemes) to be one
of
-
to_wbem_uri
(format='standard')[source]¶ Return the (untyped) WBEM URI string of this CIM class path.
The returned WBEM URI contains its components as follows:
- it does not contain a namespace type (URI scheme).
- it contains an authority (host) component according to the
host
attribute, if that is not None. Otherwise, it does not contain the authority component. - it contains a namespace component according to the
namespace
attribute, if that is not None. Otherwise, it does not contain the namespace component. - it contains a class name component according to the
classname
attribute.
Note that when you do not want some of these components to show up in the resulting WBEM URI string, you can set them to None before calling this method.
Except when using the format “canonical”, this method should not be used to compare class paths for equality: DSP0004 defines several components of a class path to be compared case insensitively. All WBEM URI formats returned by this method except for the format “canonical” return a WBEM URI string that preserves the lexical case of any components. Therefore, two class paths that are considered equal according to DSP0004 may not have equal WBEM URI strings as as returned by this method.
Instead, equality of class paths represented by
CIMClassName
objects should be determined by using the==
operator, which performs the comparison conformant to DSP0004. If you have WBEM URI strings without the correspondingCIMClassName
object, such an object can be created by using the static methodfrom_wbem_uri()
.Parameters: format (string) – Format for the generated WBEM URI string, using one of the following values:
"standard"
- Standard format that is conformant to untyped WBEM URIs for class paths defined in DSP0207."canonical"
- Like"standard"
, except that the following items have been converted to lower case: host, namespace, and classname. This format guarantees that two class paths that are considered equal according to DSP0004 result in equal WBEM URI strings. Therefore, the returned WBEM URI is suitable to be used as a key in dictionaries of CIM classes."cimobject"
- Format for the CIMObject header field in CIM-XML messages for representing class paths (used internally, see DSP0200)."historical"
- Historical format for WBEM URIs (used by__str__()
; should not be used by new code). The historical format has the following differences to the standard format:- If the host component is not present, the slash after the host is also omitted. In the standard format, that slash is always present.
- If the namespace component is not present, the colon after the namespace is also omitted. In the standard format, that colon is always present.
Examples:
With host and namespace, standard format:
//ACME.com/cimv2/Test:CIM_RegisteredProfile
With host and namespace, canonical format:
//acme.com/cimv2/test:cim_registeredprofile
Without host but with namespace, standard format:
/cimv2/Test:CIM_RegisteredProfile
Without host but with namespace, canonical format:
/cimv2/test:cim_registeredprofile
Without host and without namespace, standard format:
/:CIM_RegisteredProfile
Returns: Untyped WBEM URI of the CIM class path, in the specified format. Return type: unicode string Raises: ValueError
– Invalid format
- classname (string) –
4.2.7. CIMClass¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMClass
(classname, properties=None, methods=None, superclass=None, qualifiers=None, path=None)[source]¶ A representation of a CIM class in a CIM namespace in a WBEM server, optionally including its class path.
Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
Parameters: - classname (string) –
Class name of the class.
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- properties (properties input object) – The property declarations for the class.
- methods (methods input object) – The method declarations for the class.
- superclass (string) –
Name of the superclass for the class.
None means that the class is a top-level class, and the
superclass
attribute will also be None.The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- qualifiers (qualifiers input object) – The qualifiers for the class.
- path (
CIMClassName
) –Class path for the class.
New in pywbem 0.11.
The provided object will be copied before being stored in the
CIMClass
object.None means that the instance path is unspecified, and the
path
attribute will also be None.This parameter has been added in pywbem 0.11 as a convenience for the user in order so that
CIMClass
objects can be self-contained w.r.t. their class path.
Raises: ValueError
– classname is None, a property, method or qualifier name is None, or a property, method or qualifier name does not match its dictionary key.TypeError
– a numeric Python type was used for a qualifier value.
Methods
copy
Return a new CIMClass
object that is a copy of this CIM class.tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM class, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM class, as a unicode string. tomof
Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM class. Attributes
classname
Class name of this CIM class. methods
Methods (declarations) of this CIM class. path
Class path of this CIM class. properties
Properties (declarations) of this CIM class. qualifiers
Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM class. superclass
Class name of the superclass of this CIM class. Details
-
classname
¶ Class name of this CIM class.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
superclass
¶ Class name of the superclass of this CIM class.
None means that the class is a top-level class.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
properties
¶ Properties (declarations) of this CIM class.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one property declaration, with:
- key (unicode string): Property name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMProperty
): Property declaration.
The order of properties in the CIM class is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current CIM properties to be replaced with the new properties. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.The CIM properties can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. The provided input value must be a
CIMProperty
object:cls = CIMClass(...) p1 = CIMProperty('p1', ...) # must be a CIMProperty cls.properties['p1'] = p1 # Set "p1" to p1 (add if needed) p1 = cls.properties['p1'] # Access "p1" del cls.properties['p1'] # Delete "p1" from the class
Type: NocaseDict
-
methods
¶ Methods (declarations) of this CIM class.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one method, with:
- key (unicode string): Method name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMMethod
): Method declaration.
The order of methods in the CIM class is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current CIM methods to be replaced with the new methods. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.The CIM methods can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. The provided input value must be a
CIMMethod
object:cls = CIMClass(...) m1 = CIMMethod('m1', ...) # must be a CIMMethod cls.methods['m1'] = m1 # Set "m1" to m1 (add if needed) m1 = cls.methods['m1'] # Access "m1" del cls.methods['m1'] # Delete "m1" from the class
Type: NocaseDict
-
qualifiers
¶ Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM class.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one qualifier value, with:
- key (unicode string): Qualifier name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMQualifier
): Qualifier value.
The order of qualifiers in the CIM class is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current qualifiers to be replaced with the new qualifiers. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.The qualifier values can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. The provided input value may be specified as a CIM data type or as a
CIMQualifier
object:cls = CIMClass(...) q1 = Uint32(...) # may be CIM data type or CIMQualifier cls.qualifiers['q1'] = q1 # Set "q1" to q1 (add if needed) q1 = cls.qualifiers['q1'] # Access "q1" del cls.qualifiers['q1'] # Delete "q1" from the class
Type: NocaseDict
-
path
¶ Class path of this CIM class.
New in pywbem 0.11.
None means that the class path is unspecified.
This attribute has been added in pywbem 0.11 as a convenience for the user in order so that
CIMClass
objects can be self-contained w.r.t. their class path.This attribute will be set in in any
CIMClass
objects returned byWBEMConnection
methods, based on information in the response from the WBEM server.This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: CIMClassName
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMClass
objects.The equality is based on their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- classname
- superclass
- qualifiers
- properties
- methods
- path
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMClass
object.
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM class, that is suitable for debugging.
The order of properties, method and qualifiers will be preserved in the result.
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMClass
object that is a copy of this CIM class.This is a middle-deep copy; any mutable types in attributes except the following are copied, so besides these exceptions, modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa. The following mutable types are not copied and are therefore shared between original and copy:
- The
CIMProperty
objects in theproperties
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself) - The
CIMMethod
objects in themethods
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself) - The
CIMQualifier
objects in thequalifiers
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself)
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.- The
-
tocimxml
()[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM class, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
The returned CIM-XML representation is a CLASS element consistent with DSP0201. This is the required element for representing embedded classes.
If the class has a class path specified, it will be ignored.
The order of properties, methods, parameters, and qualifiers in the returned CIM-XML representation is preserved from the
CIMClass
object.Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM class, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: indent (string or integer) – None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the object, as a unicode string.
-
tomof
(maxline=80)[source]¶ Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM class.
The returned MOF string conforms to the
classDeclaration
ABNF rule defined in DSP0004.The order of properties, methods, parameters, and qualifiers is preserved.
The
path
attribute of this object will not be included in the returned MOF string.Consistent with that, class path information is not included in the returned MOF string.
Returns: MOF string. Return type: unicode string
- classname (string) –
4.2.8. CIMProperty¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMProperty
(name, value, type=None, class_origin=None, array_size=None, propagated=None, is_array=None, reference_class=None, qualifiers=None, embedded_object=None)[source]¶ A CIM property (value or declaration).
This object can be used in a
CIMInstance
object for representing a property value, or in aCIMClass
object for representing a property declaration.For property values in CIM instances:
- The value attribute is the actual value of the property.
- Qualifiers are not allowed.
For property declarations in CIM classes:
- The value attribute is the default value of the property declaration.
- Qualifiers are allowed.
Scalar (=non-array) properties may have a value of NULL (= None), any primitive CIM data type, reference type, and string type with embedded instance or embedded object.
Array properties may be Null or may have elements with a value of NULL, any primitive CIM data type, and string type with embedded instance or embedded object. Reference types are not allowed in property arrays in CIM, as per DSP0004.
Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
The init method infers optional parameters that are not specified (for example, it infers type from the Python type of value and other information). If the specified parameters are inconsistent, an exception is raised. If an optional parameter is needed for some reason, an exception is raised.
Parameters: - name (string) –
Name of the property.
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- value (CIM data type or other suitable types) –
Value of the property.
The property value is interpreted as an actual property value when the CIM property is used in a CIM instance, and as default value when the CIM property is used in a CIM class.
None means that the property is Null, and the same-named attribute in the
CIMProperty
object will also be None.The specified value will be converted to a CIM data type using the rules documented in the description of
cimvalue()
, taking into account the type parameter. - type (string) –
Name of the CIM data type of the property (e.g.
"uint8"
).None will cause the type to be inferred from the value parameter, raising
ValueError
if it cannot be inferred (for example when value is None or a Python integer).ValueError
is raised if the type is not a valid CIM data type (see CIM data types). - class_origin (string) –
The CIM class origin of the property (the name of the most derived class that defines or overrides the property in the class hierarchy of the class owning the property).
None means that class origin information is not available, and
class_origin
attribute will also be None.The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- array_size (integer) –
The size of the array property, for fixed-size arrays.
None means that the array property has variable size, and
array_size
attribute will also be None. - propagated (
bool
) –If not None, specifies whether the property declaration has been propagated from a superclass, or the property value has been propagated from the creation class.
None means that propagation information is not available, and
propagated
attribute will also be None. - is_array (
bool
) –A boolean indicating whether the property is an array (True) or a scalar (False).
If None, the
is_array
attribute will be inferred from the value parameter. If the value parameter is None, a scalar is assumed. - reference_class (string) –
For reference properties, the name of the class referenced by the property, or None indicating that the referenced class is unspecified.
For non-reference properties, must be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
Note: Prior to pywbem 0.11, the corresponding attribute was inferred from the creation class name of a referenced instance. This was incorrect and has been fixed in pywbem 0.11.
- qualifiers (qualifiers input object) – The qualifiers for the property declaration. Has no meaning for property values.
- embedded_object (string) –
A string value indicating the kind of embedded object represented by the property value. Has no meaning for property declarations.
For details about the possible values, see the corresponding attribute.
None means that the value is unspecified, causing the same-named attribute in the
CIMProperty
object to be inferred. An exception is raised if it cannot be inferred.False means the property value is not an embedded object, and is stored as None.
Examples:
# a string property: CIMProperty("MyString", "abc") # a uint8 property: CIMProperty("MyNum", 42, "uint8") # a uint8 property: CIMProperty("MyNum", Uint8(42)) # a uint8 array property: CIMProperty("MyNumArray", [1, 2, 3], "uint8") # a reference property: CIMProperty("MyRef", CIMInstanceName("Foo")) # an embedded object property containing a class: CIMProperty("MyEmbObj", CIMClass("Foo")) # an embedded object property containing an instance: CIMProperty("MyEmbObj", CIMInstance("Foo"), embedded_object="object") # an embedded instance property: CIMProperty("MyEmbInst", CIMInstance("Foo")) # a string property that is Null: CIMProperty("MyString", None, "string") # a uint8 property that is Null: CIMProperty("MyNum", None, "uint8") # a reference property that is Null: CIMProperty("MyRef", None, "reference", reference_class="MyClass") # an embedded object property that is Null: CIMProperty("MyEmbObj", None, "string", embedded_object="object") # an embedded instance property that is Null: CIMProperty("MyEmbInst", None, "string", embedded_object="instance")
Methods
copy
Return a new CIMProperty
object that is a copy of this CIM property.tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM property, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM property, as a unicode string. tomof
Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM property for use in a CIM class, or the specification of this CIM property for use in a CIM instance. Attributes
array_size
The size of the fixed-size array of this CIM property. class_origin
The class origin of this CIM property, identifying the most derived class that defines or overrides the property in the class hierarchy of the class owning the property. embedded_object
A string value indicating the kind of embedded object represented by this CIM property value. is_array
Boolean indicating that this CIM property is an array (as opposed to a scalar). name
Name of this CIM property. propagated
Boolean indicating that the property declaration has been propagated from a superclass, or that the property value has been propagated from the creation class. qualifiers
Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM property declaration. reference_class
The name of the class referenced by this CIM reference property. type
Name of the CIM data type of this CIM property. value
Value of this CIM property. Details
-
name
¶ Name of this CIM property.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
value
¶ Value of this CIM property.
The property value is interpreted as an actual property value when this CIM property is used in a CIM instance, and as default value when this CIM property is used in a CIM class.
None means that the value is Null.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: CIM data type
-
type
¶ Name of the CIM data type of this CIM property.
Example:
"uint8"
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
reference_class
¶ The name of the class referenced by this CIM reference property.
Will be None for non-reference properties or if the referenced class is unspecified in reference properties.
Note that in CIM instances returned from a WBEM server, DSP0201 recommends this attribute not to be set. For CIM classes returned from a WBEM server, DSP0201 requires this attribute to be set.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
embedded_object
¶ A string value indicating the kind of embedded object represented by this CIM property value.
Has no meaning for CIM property declarations.
The following values are defined for this parameter:
"instance"
: The property is declared with theEmbeddedInstance
qualifier, indicating that the property value is an embedded instance of the class specified as the value of theEmbeddedInstance
qualifier. The property value must be aCIMInstance
object, or None."object"
: The property is declared with theEmbeddedObject
qualifier, indicating that the property value is an embedded object (instance or class) of which the class name is not known. The property value must be aCIMInstance
orCIMClass
object, or None.- None, for properties not representing embedded objects.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
is_array
¶ Boolean indicating that this CIM property is an array (as opposed to a scalar).
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
array_size
¶ The size of the fixed-size array of this CIM property.
None means that the array has variable size, or that the property is a scalar.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: integer
-
class_origin
¶ The class origin of this CIM property, identifying the most derived class that defines or overrides the property in the class hierarchy of the class owning the property.
None means that class origin information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
propagated
¶ Boolean indicating that the property declaration has been propagated from a superclass, or that the property value has been propagated from the creation class.
None means that propagation information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
qualifiers
¶ Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM property declaration.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one qualifier value, with:
- key (unicode string): Qualifier name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMQualifier
): Qualifier value.
The order of qualifiers in the property is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current qualifiers to be replaced with the new qualifiers. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.The qualifier values can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. The provided input value may be specified as a CIM data type or as a
CIMQualifier
object:prop = CIMProperty(...) q1 = CIMQualifier('q1', ...) # may be CIM data type or CIMQualifier prop.qualifiers['q1'] = q1 # Set "q1" to q1 (add if needed) q1 = prop.qualifiers['q1'] # Access "q1" del prop.qualifiers['q1'] # Delete "q1" from the class
Type: NocaseDict
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMProperty
object that is a copy of this CIM property.This is a middle-deep copy; any mutable types in attributes except the following are copied, so besides these exceptions, modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa. The following mutable types are not copied and are therefore shared between original and copy:
- The
CIMQualifier
objects in thequalifiers
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself)
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.- The
-
__str__
()[source]¶ Return a short string representation of this CIM property, for human consumption.
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM property, that is suitable for debugging.
The order of qualifiers will be preserved in the result.
-
tocimxml
()[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM property, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
The returned CIM-XML representation is a PROPERTY, PROPERTY.REFERENCE, or PROPERTY.ARRAY element dependent on the property type, and consistent with DSP0201. Note that array properties cannot be of reference type.
The order of qualifiers in the returned CIM-XML representation is preserved from the
CIMProperty
object.Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM property, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: indent (string or integer) – None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the object, as a unicode string.
-
tomof
(is_instance=True, indent=0, maxline=80, line_pos=0)[source]¶ Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM property for use in a CIM class, or the specification of this CIM property for use in a CIM instance.
New in pywbem 0.9.
Even though pywbem supports qualifiers on
CIMProperty
objects that are used as property values within an instance, the returned MOF string for property values in instances does not contain any qualifier values.The order of qualifiers is preserved.
Parameters: Returns: MOF string.
Return type:
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMProperty
objects.The equality is based on their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- name
- value
- type
- reference_class
- embedded_object
- is_array
- array_size
- propagated
- class_origin
- qualifiers
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMProperty
object.
4.2.9. CIMMethod¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMMethod
(name=None, return_type=None, parameters=None, class_origin=None, propagated=None, qualifiers=None)[source]¶ A method (declaration) in a CIM class.
Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
The init method stores the input parameters as-is and does not infer unspecified parameters from the others (like
CIMProperty
does).Parameters: - name (string) –
Name of this CIM method (just the method name, without class name or parenthesis).
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- return_type (string) –
Name of the CIM data type of the method return type (e.g.
"uint32"
).Must not be None or
"reference"
.ValueError
is raised if the type is None,"reference"
, or not a valid CIM data type (see CIM data types).Support for void return types: Pywbem also does not support void return types, consistent with the CIM architecture and MOF syntax (see DSP0004). Note that void return types could be represented in CIM-XML (see DSP0201).
Support for reference return types: Pywbem does not support reference return types of methods. The CIM architecture and MOF syntax support reference return types, and the CIM-XML protocol supports the invocation of methods with reference return types. However, CIM-XML does not support the representation of class declarations with methods that have reference return types.
Support for array return types: Pywbem does not support array return types of methods, consistent with the CIM architecture, MOF syntax and CIM-XML.
- parameters (parameters input object) – Parameter declarations for the method.
- class_origin (string) –
The CIM class origin of the method (the name of the most derived class that defines or overrides the method in the class hierarchy of the class owning the method).
None means that class origin information is not available, and the
class_origin
attribute will also be None.The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- propagated (
bool
) –If not None, specifies whether the method has been propagated from a superclass.
None means that propagation information is not available, and the the
propagated
attribute will also be None. - qualifiers (qualifiers input object) – The qualifiers for the method.
Methods
copy
Return a new CIMMethod
object that is a copy of this CIM method.tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM method, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM method, as a unicode string. tomof
Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM method for use in a CIM class declaration. Attributes
class_origin
The class origin of this CIM method, identifying the most derived class that defines or overrides the method in the class hierarchy of the class owning the method. name
Name of this CIM method. parameters
Parameters of this CIM method. propagated
Boolean indicating that this CIM method has been propagated from a superclass. qualifiers
Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM method. return_type
Name of the CIM data type of the return type of this CIM method. Details
-
name
¶ Name of this CIM method.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
return_type
¶ Name of the CIM data type of the return type of this CIM method.
Example:
"uint32"
Will not be None or
"reference"
.This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
class_origin
¶ The class origin of this CIM method, identifying the most derived class that defines or overrides the method in the class hierarchy of the class owning the method.
None means that class origin information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
propagated
¶ Boolean indicating that this CIM method has been propagated from a superclass.
None means that propagation information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
parameters
¶ Parameters of this CIM method.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one parameter, with:
- key (unicode string): Parameter name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMParameter
): Parameter declaration.
The order of parameters in the method is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current parameters to be replaced with the new parameters. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.The parameters can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. The provided input value must be a
CIMParameter
object:meth = CIMMethod(...) p1 = CIMParameter('p1', ...) # must be a CIMParameter meth.parameters['p1'] = p1 # Set "p1" to p1 (add if needed) p1 = meth.parameters['p1'] # Access "p1" del meth.parameters['p1'] # Delete "p1" from the class
Type: NocaseDict
-
qualifiers
¶ Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM method.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one qualifier value, with:
- key (unicode string): Qualifier name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMQualifier
): Qualifier value.
The order of qualifiers in the method is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current qualifiers to be replaced with the new qualifiers. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.The qualifier values can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. The provided input value may be specified as a CIM data type or as a
CIMQualifier
object:meth = CIMMethod(...) q1 = "..." # may be CIM data type or CIMQualifier meth.qualifiers['q1'] = q1 # Set "q1" to q1 (add if needed) q1 = meth.qualifiers['q1'] # Access "q1" del meth.qualifiers['q1'] # Delete "q1" from the class
Type: NocaseDict
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMMethod
objects.The equality is based on their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- name
- qualifiers
- parameters
- return_type
- class_origin
- propagated
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMMethod
object.
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM method, that is suitable for debugging.
The order of parameters and qualifiers will be preserved in the result.
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMMethod
object that is a copy of this CIM method.This is a middle-deep copy; any mutable types in attributes except the following are copied, so besides these exceptions, modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa. The following mutable types are not copied and are therefore shared between original and copy:
- The
CIMParameter
objects in theparameters
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself) - The
CIMQualifier
objects in thequalifiers
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself)
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.- The
-
tocimxml
()[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM method, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
The returned CIM-XML representation is a METHOD element consistent with DSP0201.
The order of parameters and qualifiers in the returned CIM-XML representation is preserved from the
CIMMethod
object.Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM method, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: indent (string or integer) – None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the object, as a unicode string.
-
tomof
(indent=0, maxline=80)[source]¶ Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM method for use in a CIM class declaration.
The order of parameters and qualifiers is preserved.
Parameters: indent (integer) – Number of spaces to indent each line of the returned string, counted in the line with the method name. Returns: MOF string. Return type: unicode string
- name (string) –
4.2.10. CIMParameter¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMParameter
(name, type, reference_class=None, is_array=None, array_size=None, qualifiers=None, value=None, embedded_object=None)[source]¶ A CIM parameter (value or declaration).
This object can be used as parameter value in the
InvokeMethod()
operation, and as a parameter declaration in aCIMMethod
object.For parameter values in method invocations:
- The value attribute is the actual value of the parameter.
- Qualifiers are not allowed.
For parameter declarations in method declarations:
- The value attribute is ignored.
- Qualifiers are allowed.
Scalar (=non-array) parameters and items in array parameters may have a value of NULL (= None), any primitive CIM data type, reference type, or string type with embedded instance or embedded object.
Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
The init method stores the input parameters as-is and does not infer unspecified parameters from the others (like
CIMProperty
does).Parameters: - name (string) –
Name of this CIM parameter.
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- type (string) –
Name of the CIM data type of this CIM parameter.
Example:
"uint8"
Must not be None.
ValueError
is raised if the type is None or not a valid CIM data type (see CIM data types). - reference_class (string) –
For reference parameters, the name of the class referenced by the parameter, or None indicating that the referenced class is unspecified.
For non-reference parameters, must be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- is_array (
bool
) –A boolean indicating whether the parameter is an array (True) or a scalar (False).
If None, the
is_array
attribute will be inferred from the value parameter. If the value parameter is None, a scalar is assumed. - array_size (integer) –
The size of the array parameter, for fixed-size arrays.
None means that the array parameter has variable size, and the
array_size
attribute will also be None. - qualifiers (qualifiers input object) – The qualifiers for the parameter.
- value –
The value of the CIM method parameter for the method invocation. Has no meaning for parameter declarations.
The specified value will be converted to a CIM data type using the rules documented in the description of
cimvalue()
, taking into account the type parameter. - embedded_object (string) –
A string value indicating the kind of embedded object represented by the parameter value (i.e. the value parameter). Has no meaning for parameter declarations.
For details about the possible values, see the corresponding attribute.
None means that the value is unspecified, causing the same-named attribute in the
CIMParameter
object to be inferred from the parameter value (i.e. the value parameter). An exception is raised if it cannot be inferred.False means the parameter value is not an embedded object, and is stored as None.
Methods
copy
Return a new CIMParameter
object that is a copy of this CIM parameter.tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM parameter, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM parameter, as a unicode string. tomof
Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM parameter for use in a CIM method declaration. Attributes
array_size
The size of the fixed-size array of this CIM parameter. embedded_object
A string value indicating the kind of embedded object represented by this CIM parameter value. is_array
Boolean indicating that this CIM parameter is an array (as opposed to a scalar). name
Name of this CIM parameter. qualifiers
Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM parameter. reference_class
The name of the class referenced by this CIM reference parameter. type
Name of the CIM data type of this CIM parameter. value
The value of this CIM parameter for the method invocation. Details
-
name
¶ Name of this CIM parameter.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
type
¶ Name of the CIM data type of this CIM parameter.
Example:
"uint8"
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
reference_class
¶ The name of the class referenced by this CIM reference parameter.
Will be None for non-reference parameters or if the referenced class is unspecified in reference parameters.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
is_array
¶ Boolean indicating that this CIM parameter is an array (as opposed to a scalar).
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
array_size
¶ The size of the fixed-size array of this CIM parameter.
None means that the array has variable size, or that the parameter is a scalar.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: integer
-
qualifiers
¶ Qualifiers (qualifier values) of this CIM parameter.
Will not be None.
Each dictionary item specifies one qualifier value, with:
- key (unicode string): Qualifier name. Its lexical case was preserved.
- value (
CIMQualifier
): Qualifier value.
The order of qualifiers in the parameter is preserved.
This attribute is settable; setting it will cause the current qualifiers to be replaced with the new qualifiers. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.The qualifier values can also be accessed and manipulated one by one because the attribute value is a modifiable dictionary. The provided input value may be specified as a CIM data type or as a
CIMQualifier
object:parm = CIMParameter(...) q1 = True # may be CIM data type or CIMQualifier parm.qualifiers['q1'] = q1 # Set "q1" to q1 (add if needed) q1 = parm.qualifiers['q1'] # Access "q1" del parm.qualifiers['q1'] # Delete "q1" from the class
Type: NocaseDict
-
value
¶ The value of this CIM parameter for the method invocation.
Has no meaning for parameter declarations.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.
-
embedded_object
¶ A string value indicating the kind of embedded object represented by this CIM parameter value.
Has no meaning for CIM parameter declarations.
The following values are defined for this parameter:
"instance"
: The parameter is declared with theEmbeddedInstance
qualifier, indicating that the parameter value is an embedded instance of the class specified as the value of theEmbeddedInstance
qualifier. The property value must be aCIMInstance
object, or None."object"
: The parameter is declared with theEmbeddedObject
qualifier, indicating that the parameter value is an embedded object (instance or class) of which the class name is not known. The parameter value must be aCIMInstance
orCIMClass
object, or None.- None, for parameters not representing embedded objects.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMParameter
objects.The equality is based on their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- name
- type
- reference_class
- is_array
- array_size
- qualifiers
- value
- embedded_object
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMParameter
object.
-
__str__
()[source]¶ Return a short string representation of this CIM parameter, for human consumption.
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM parameter, that is suitable for debugging.
The order of qualifiers will be preserved in the result.
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMParameter
object that is a copy of this CIM parameter.This is a middle-deep copy; any mutable types in attributes except the following are copied, so besides these exceptions, modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa. The following mutable types are not copied and are therefore shared between original and copy:
- The
CIMQualifier
objects in thequalifiers
dictionary (but not the dictionary object itself)
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.- The
-
tocimxml
(as_value=False)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM parameter, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
The returned CIM-XML representation can be created either as a parameter declaration for use in a method declaration, or as a parameter value for use in a method invocation.
If a parameter value is to be returned, the returned CIM-XML representation is a PARAMVALUE element with child elements dependent on the parameter type, and consistent with DSP0201.
If a parameter declaration is to be returned, the returned CIM-XML representation is a PARAMETER, PARAMETER.REFERENCE, PARAMETER.ARRAY, or PARAMETER.REFARRAY element dependent on the parameter type, and consistent with DSP0201.
The order of qualifiers in the returned CIM-XML representation of a parameter declaration is preserved from the
CIMParameter
object.Parameters: as_value (bool) – If True, return the object as a parameter value. Otherwise, return the object as a parameter declaration. Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None, as_value=False)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM parameter, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
The returned CIM-XML representation can be created either as a parameter declaration for use in a method declaration, or as a parameter value for use in a method invocation.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: - indent (string or integer) –
None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
- as_value (bool) – If True, return the object as a parameter value. Otherwise, return the object as a parameter declaration.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the object, as a unicode string.
- indent (string or integer) –
-
tomof
(indent=0, maxline=80)[source]¶ Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM parameter for use in a CIM method declaration.
The object is always interpreted as a parameter declaration; so the
value
andembedded_object
attributes are ignored.The order of qualifiers is preserved.
Parameters: indent (integer) – Number of spaces to indent each line of the returned string, counted in the line with the parameter name. Returns: MOF string. Return type: unicode string
4.2.11. CIMQualifier¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMQualifier
(name, value, type=None, propagated=None, overridable=None, tosubclass=None, toinstance=None, translatable=None)[source]¶ A CIM qualifier value.
A qualifier represents metadata on a class, method, property, etc., and specifies information such as a documentation string or whether a property is a key.
CIMQualifier
objects can be used to represent the qualifier values that are specified on a CIM element (e.g. on a CIM class). In that case, thepropagated
property is always False, and the effective values of applicable but unspecified qualifiers need to be determined by users, by considering the default value of the corresponding qualifier type, the propagation and override flavors of the qualifier, and the qualifier values that have been specified in the class ancestry of the CIM element in question.CIMQualifier
objects can also be used to represent the effective values of all applicable qualifiers on a CIM element, including those that have not been specified, e.g. in the MOF declaration of the CIM element. In this case, theCIMQualifier
objects for qualifier values that are specified in MOF represent the specified values, and theirpropagated
property is False. TheCIMQualifier
objects for qualifier values that are not specified in MOF represent the effective values, and theirpropagated
property is True.Whether a set of
CIMQualifier
objects on a CIM object represents just the specified qualifiers or all applicable qualifiers needs to be known from the context.CIMQualifier
has properties that represent qualifier flavors (tosubclass
,toinstance
,overridable
, andtranslatable
). If any of these flavor properties is not None, the qualifier value represented by theCIMQualifier
object implicitly defines a qualifier type. Implicitly defined qualifier types have been deprecated in DSP0004. The implicitly defined qualifier type is conceptual and is not materialized as aCIMQualifierDeclaration
object.Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
The init method infers optional parameters that are not specified (for example, it infers type from the Python type of value and other information). If the specified parameters are inconsistent, an exception is raised. If an optional parameter is needed for some reason, an exception is raised.
Parameters: - name (string) –
Name of the qualifier.
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- value (CIM data type or other suitable types) –
Value of the qualifier.
None means that the qualifier is Null, and the same-named attribute in the
CIMQualifier
object will also be None.The specified value will be converted to a CIM data type using the rules documented in the description of
cimvalue()
, taking into account the type parameter. - type (string) –
Name of the CIM data type of the qualifier (e.g.
"uint8"
).None will cause the type to be inferred from the value parameter, raising
ValueError
if it cannot be inferred (for example when value is None or a Python integer).ValueError
is raised if the type is not a valid CIM data type (see CIM data types). - propagated (
bool
) –If not None, specifies whether the qualifier value has been propagated from a superclass.
None means that this information is not available, and the
propagated
attribute will also be None. - overridable (
bool
) –If not None, specifies whether the qualifier value is overridable in subclasses.
None means that this information is not available, and the
overridable
attribute will also be None. - tosubclass (
bool
) –If not None, specifies whether the qualifier value propagates to subclasses.
None means that this information is not available, and the
tosubclass
attribute will also be None. - toinstance (
bool
) –If not None, specifies whether the qualifier value propagates to instances.
None means that this information is not available, and the
toinstance
attribute will also be None.Note that DSP0200 has deprecated the presence of qualifier values on CIM instances.
- translatable (
bool
) –If not None, specifies whether the qualifier is translatable.
None means that this information is not available, and the
translatable
attribute will also be None.
Examples:
# a string qualifier: CIMQualifier("MyString", "abc") # a uint8 qualifier: CIMQualifier("MyNum", 42, "uint8") # a uint8 qualifier: CIMQualifier("MyNum", Uint8(42)) # a uint8 array qualifier: CIMQualifier("MyNumArray", [1, 2, 3], "uint8") # a string qualifier that is Null: CIMQualifier("MyString", None, "string") # a uint8 qualifier that is Null: CIMQualifier("MyNum", None, "uint8")
Methods
copy
Return a new CIMQualifier
object that is a copy of this CIM qualifier.tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM qualifier, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM qualifier, as a unicode string. tomof
Return a MOF string with the specification of this CIM qualifier as a qualifier value. Attributes
name
Name of this CIM qualifier. overridable
If not None, causes an implicit qualifier type to be defined for this qualifier that has the specified flavor. propagated
Boolean indicating that the qualifier value has been propagated from a superclass. toinstance
If not None, causes an implicit qualifier type to be defined for this qualifier that has the specified flavor. tosubclass
If not None, causes an implicit qualifier type to be defined for this qualifier that has the specified flavor. translatable
If not None, causes an implicit qualifier type to be defined for this qualifier that has the specified flavor. type
Name of the CIM data type of this CIM qualifier. value
Value of this CIM qualifier. Details
-
name
¶ Name of this CIM qualifier.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
type
¶ Name of the CIM data type of this CIM qualifier.
Example:
"uint8"
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
value
¶ Value of this CIM qualifier.
None means that the value is Null.
For CIM data types string and char16, this attribute will be a unicode string, even when specified as a byte string.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: CIM data type
-
propagated
¶ Boolean indicating that the qualifier value has been propagated from a superclass.
None means that propagation information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
tosubclass
¶ If not None, causes an implicit qualifier type to be defined for this qualifier that has the specified flavor.
If True, specifies the ToSubclass flavor (the qualifier value propagates to subclasses); if False specifies the Restricted flavor (the qualifier values does not propagate to subclasses).
None means that this information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
toinstance
¶ If not None, causes an implicit qualifier type to be defined for this qualifier that has the specified flavor.
If True specifies the ToInstance flavor(the qualifier value propagates to instances. If False, specifies that qualifier values do not propagate to instances. There is no flavor corresponding to toinstance=False.
None means that this information is not available.
Note that DSP0200 has deprecated the presence of qualifier values on CIM instances.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
overridable
¶ If not None, causes an implicit qualifier type to be defined for this qualifier that has the specified flavor.
If True, specifies the EnableOverride flavor(the qualifier value is overridable in subclasses); if False specifies the DisableOverride flavor(the qualifier value is not overridable in subclasses).
None means that this information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
translatable
¶ If not None, causes an implicit qualifier type to be defined for this qualifier that has the specified flavor.
If True, specifies the Translatable flavor (the qualifier is translatable); if False specifies that the qualfier is not translatable. There is no flavor corresponding to translatable=False.
None means that this information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMQualifier
objects.The equality is based on their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- name
- type
- value
- propagated
- overridable
- tosubclass
- toinstance
- translatable
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMQualifier
object.
-
__str__
()[source]¶ Return a short string representation of this CIM qualifier, for human consumption.
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM qualifier, that is suitable for debugging.
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMQualifier
object that is a copy of this CIM qualifier.Objects of this class have no mutable types in any attributes, so modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa.
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.
-
tocimxml
()[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM qualifier, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
The returned CIM-XML representation is a QUALIFIER element consistent with DSP0201.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM qualifier, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: indent (string or integer) – None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the object, as a unicode string.
-
tomof
(indent=3, maxline=80, line_pos=0)[source]¶ Return a MOF string with the specification of this CIM qualifier as a qualifier value.
The items of array values are tried to keep on the same line. If the generated line would exceed the maximum MOF line length, the value is split into multiple lines, on array item boundaries, and/or within long strings on word boundaries.
If a string value (of a scalar value, or of an array item) is split into multiple lines, the first line of the value is put onto a line on its own.
Parameters: indent (integer) – For a multi-line result, the number of spaces to indent each line except the first line (on which the qualifier name appears). For a single-line result, ignored. Returns: MOF string. Return type: unicode string
- name (string) –
4.2.12. CIMQualifierDeclaration¶
-
class
pywbem.
CIMQualifierDeclaration
(name, type, value=None, is_array=False, array_size=None, scopes=None, overridable=None, tosubclass=None, toinstance=None, translatable=None)[source]¶ A CIM qualifier type is the declaration of a qualifier and defines the attributes of qualifier name, qualifier type, value, scopes, and flavors for the qualifier.
The scope of a qualifer determines the kinds of schema elements on which it can be specified.
Value specifies the default value for the qualifier.
Flavors specify certain characteristics of the qualifier such as its value propagation from the ancestry of the qualified element and its translatability.
Flavors attributes must be specifically set on construction of the
CIMQualifierDeclaration
or they will be set to None. This differs from the DMTF specification DSP0004 where default values are defined as follows:Because None is allowed as a value for the flavors attributes in constructing a
CIMQualifierDeclaration
, the user must insure that any flavor which has the value None is set to its default value if required for subsequent processing.The pywbem MOF compiler supplies all of the flavor values so that those which were not specified in the MOF are set to the DMTF defined default values.
Two objects of this class compare equal if their public attributes compare equal. Objects of this class are unchanged-hashable, with the hash value being based on its public attributes. Therefore, objects of this class can be used as members in a set (or as dictionary keys) only during periods in which their public attributes remain unchanged.
Parameters: - name (string) –
Name of the qualifier.
Must not be None.
The lexical case of the string is preserved. Object comparison and hash value calculation are performed case-insensitively.
- type (string) –
Name of the CIM data type of the qualifier (e.g.
"uint8"
).Must not be None.
ValueError
is raised if the type is None or not a valid CIM data type (see CIM data types). - value (CIM data type or other suitable types) –
Default value of the qualifier.
None means a default value of Null, and the
value
attribute will also be None.The specified value will be converted to a CIM data type using the rules documented in the description of
cimvalue()
, taking into account the type parameter. - is_array (
bool
) –A boolean indicating whether the qualifier is an array (True) or a scalar (False).
If None, the
is_array
attribute will be inferred from the value parameter. If the value parameter is None, a scalar is assumed. - array_size (integer) –
The size of the array qualifier, for fixed-size arrays.
None means that the array qualifier has variable size, and the
array_size
attribute will also be None. - scopes (
dict
or NocaseDict) –Scopes of the qualifier.
A shallow copy of the provided dictionary will be stored in the
CIMQualifierDeclaration
object.Each dictionary item specifies one scope value, with:
- key (string): Scope name, in upper case.
Must not be None.
- value (
bool
): Scope value, specifying whether the qualifier has that scope (i.e. can be applied to a CIM element of that kind).
Valid scope names are “CLASS”, “ASSOCIATION”, “REFERENCE”, “PROPERTY”, “METHOD”, “PARAMETER”, “INDICATION”, and “ANY”.
None is interpreted as an empty set of scopes.
For details about the dictionary items, see the corresponding attribute.
- key (string): Scope name, in upper case.
- overridable (
bool
) –If not None, defines the flavor that defines whether the qualifier value is overridable in subclasses.
None means that this information is not available, and the
overridable
attribute will also be None. - tosubclass (
bool
) –If not None, specifies the flavor that defines whether the qualifier value propagates to subclasses.
None means that this information is not available, and the
tosubclass
attribute will also be None. - toinstance (
bool
) –If not None, specifies the flavor that defines whether the qualifier value propagates to instances.
None means that this information is not available, and the
toinstance
attribute will also be None.Note that DSP0200 has deprecated the presence of qualifier values on CIM instances and this flavor is not defined in DSP0004
- translatable (
bool
) –If not None, specifies the flavor that defines whether the qualifier is translatable.
None means that this information is not available, and the
translatable
attribute will also be None.
Methods
copy
Return a new CIMQualifierDeclaration
object that is a copy of this CIM qualifier type.tocimxml
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM qualifier type, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element. tocimxmlstr
Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM qualifier type, as a unicode string. tomof
Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM qualifier type. Attributes
array_size
The size of the fixed-size array of this CIM qualifier type. is_array
Boolean indicating that this CIM qualifier type is an array (as opposed to a scalar). name
Name of this CIM qualifier type. overridable
If True, specifies the EnableOverride flavor (the qualifier value is overridable in subclasses); if False specifies the DisableOverride flavor (the qualifier value is not overridable in subclasses). scopes
Scopes of this CIM qualifier type. toinstance
If True, specifies the ToInstance flavor. tosubclass
If True specifies the ToSubclass flavor (the qualifier value propagates to subclasses); if False specifies the Restricted flavor (the qualifier value does not propagate to subclasses). translatable
If True, specifies the Translatable flavor. type
Name of the CIM data type of this CIM qualifier type. value
Default value of this CIM qualifier type. Details
-
name
¶ Name of this CIM qualifier type.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
type
¶ Name of the CIM data type of this CIM qualifier type.
Example:
"uint8"
.Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: unicode string
-
value
¶ Default value of this CIM qualifier type.
None means that the value is Null.
For CIM data types string and char16, this attribute will be a unicode string, even when specified as a byte string.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: CIM data type
-
is_array
¶ Boolean indicating that this CIM qualifier type is an array (as opposed to a scalar).
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
array_size
¶ The size of the fixed-size array of this CIM qualifier type.
None means that the array has variable size (or that the qualifier type is not an array).
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: integer
-
scopes
¶ Scopes of this CIM qualifier type.
Each dictionary item specifies one scope value, with:
- key (unicode string): Scope name, in upper case.
- value (
bool
): Scope value, specifying whether the qualifier has that scope (i.e. can be applied to a CIM element of that kind).
Valid scope names are “CLASS”, “ASSOCIATION”, “INDICATION”, “PROPERTY”, “REFERENCE”, “METHOD”, “PARAMETER”, and “ANY”.
Will not be None.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: NocaseDict
-
tosubclass
¶ If True specifies the ToSubclass flavor (the qualifier value propagates to subclasses); if False specifies the Restricted flavor (the qualifier value does not propagate to subclasses).
None means that this information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
toinstance
¶ If True, specifies the ToInstance flavor. This flavor specifies that the qualifier value propagates to instances. If False, specifies that qualifier values do not propagate to instances. There is no flavor corresponding to toinstance=False.
None means that this information is not available.
Note that DSP0200 has deprecated the presence of qualifier values on CIM instances.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
overridable
¶ If True, specifies the EnableOverride flavor (the qualifier value is overridable in subclasses); if False specifies the DisableOverride flavor (the qualifier value is not overridable in subclasses).
None means that this information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
translatable
¶ If True, specifies the Translatable flavor. This flavor specifies that the qualifier is translatable. If False, specifies that the qualfier is not translatable. There is no flavor corresponding to translatable=False.
None means that this information is not available.
This attribute is settable. For details, see the description of the same-named init parameter of
this class
.Type: bool
-
__eq__
(other)[source]¶ Equality test function for two
CIMQualifierDeclaration
objects.The equality is based on their public attributes, in descending precedence:
- name
- type
- value
- is_array
- array_size
- scopes
- overridable
- tosubclass
- toinstance
- translatable
The equality test takes into account any case insensitivities described for these attributes.
Raises TypeError’, if the `other object is not a
CIMQualifierDeclaration
object.
-
__str__
()[source]¶ Return a short string representation of this CIM qualifier type, for human consumption.
-
__repr__
()[source]¶ Return a string representation of this CIM qualifier type, that is suitable for debugging.
The scopes will be ordered by their names in the result.
-
copy
()[source]¶ Return a new
CIMQualifierDeclaration
object that is a copy of this CIM qualifier type.Objects of this class have no mutable types in any attributes, so modifications of the original object will not affect the returned copy, and vice versa.
Note that the Python functions
copy.copy()
andcopy.deepcopy()
can be used to create completely shallow or completely deep copies of objects of this class.
-
tocimxml
()[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM qualifier type, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
The returned CIM-XML representation is a QUALIFIER.DECLARATION element consistent with DSP0201.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation, as an object of an appropriate subclass of Element.
-
tocimxmlstr
(indent=None)[source]¶ Return the CIM-XML representation of this CIM qualifier type, as a unicode string.
New in pywbem 0.9.
For the returned CIM-XML representation, see
tocimxml()
.Parameters: indent (string or integer) – None indicates that a single-line version of the XML should be returned, without any whitespace between the XML elements.
Other values indicate that a prettified, multi-line version of the XML should be returned. A string value specifies the indentation string to be used for each level of nested XML elements. An integer value specifies an indentation string of so many blanks.
Returns: The CIM-XML representation of the object, as a unicode string.
-
tomof
(maxline=80)[source]¶ Return a MOF string with the declaration of this CIM qualifier type.
The returned MOF string conforms to the
qualifierDeclaration
ABNF rule defined in DSP0004.Qualifier flavors are included in the returned MOF string only when the information is available (i.e. the value of the corresponding attribute is not None).
Because DSP0004 does not support instance qualifiers, and thus does not define a flavor keyword for the
toinstance
attribute, that flavor is not included in the returned MOF string.Returns: MOF string. Return type: unicode string
- name (string) –