Delete Class CIM Operation

Return Results

If successful, the specified Class (including any subclasses and any instances) MUST have been removed by the CIM Server. The operation MUST fail if any one of these objects cannot be deleted. If unsuccessful, one of the following status codes MUST be returned by this method, where the first applicable error in the list (starting with the first element of the list, and working down) is the error returned. Any additional method-specific interpretation of the error in is given in parentheses.

CIM_ERR_ACCESS_DENIED
CIM_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
CIM_ERR_INVALID_NAMESPACE
CIM_ERR_INVALID_PARAMETER (including missing, duplicate, unrecognized or otherwise incorrect parameters)
CIM_ERR_NOT_FOUND (the CIM Class to be deleted does not exist)
CIM_ERR_CLASS_HAS_CHILDREN (the CIM Class has one or more subclasses which cannot be deleted)
CIM_ERR_CLASS_HAS_INSTANCES (the CIM Class has one or more instances which cannot be deleted)
CIM_ERR_FAILED (some other unspecified error occurred)

Addtitional Information

The DeleteClass method deletes a single CIM Class from the target Namespace.

The NameSpace parameter is a string that defines the target namespace \Ref{NAMESPACE}

The ClassName input parameter defines the name of the Class to be deleted.

Pegasus API in operations.h

    virtual void deleteClass(
        const String& nameSpace,
        const String& className) = 0;

Demonstration Prepared by the OpenGroup Manageability Work Group Pegasus Development Team

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