[Libvirt-cim] [PATCH] Make HostedResourcePool a little more discerning

[Kaitlin Rupert]

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

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Kaitlin Rupert
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