[Libvirt-cim] [PATCH 3 of 3] EC: Validation of client given object path missing

[Kaitlin Rupert]

Heidi Eckhart wrote:
> Dan Smith wrote:
>> KR> Or possibly a better approach would be to modify
>> KR> connect_by_classname() so that it sets an error.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that connect_by_classname() used to set an error in
>> the CMPIStatus if it was going to return NULL.  
> Yes, it did. But for consistency with CIM this was removed. The reason 
> is that a request against KVM on a Xen system can not return with an 
> error, as this breaks the CIM model and operations. This happens if the 
> client does e.g. an ein on CIM_ComputerSystem. We know that this one 
> request gets split up into requests against Xen_ComputerSystem and 
> KVM_ComputerSystem by the CIMOM. The CIMOM would then only return the 
> error code of the KVM request and revoke the instances returned by the 
> Xen request. This behavior would be wrong.

Excellent point.  Thanks for catching this.  =)
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Kaitlin Rupert
IBM Linux Technology Center
karupert at us.ibm.com