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// Author: Tony Fiorentino (fiorentino_tony@emc.com)
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#ifndef Pegasus_CIMServerDiscovery_h
#define Pegasus_CIMServerDiscovery_h

#include <Pegasus/Common/Config.h>
#include <Pegasus/Common/Array.h>
#include <Pegasus/Common/String.h>
#include <Pegasus/Client/Attribute.h>
#include <Pegasus/Client/CIMServerDescription.h>
#include <Pegasus/Client/Linkage.h>

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_BEGIN


//*****************************************************************************
// CIMServerDiscoveryRep
//*****************************************************************************


class CIMServerDiscoveryRep
{
public:

  CIMServerDiscoveryRep();
  ~CIMServerDiscoveryRep();

  Array<CIMServerDescription> lookup(const Array<Attribute> & criteria);

};

/** This class provides the interface that a client uses to discover
    CIM Servers.
    ATTN: Add more descriptive material here KS 2 Oct 2003
*/
class PEGASUS_CLIENT_LINKAGE CIMServerDiscovery
{
public:

  /** Constructor for a CIMServerDiscovery object.
  */
  CIMServerDiscovery();

  /** Destructor for a CIMServerDiscovery object
  */
  ~CIMServerDiscovery();

  /** Lookup all WBEM servers
      @return  the return value is an array of connection descriptions.
  */
  Array<CIMServerDescription> lookup();

  /** Lookup specific WBEM servers
      @param   criteria   Criteria for specifing which CIM Servers to lookup.
      @return  the return value is array of connection descriptions.
  */
  Array<CIMServerDescription> lookup(const Array<Attribute> & criteria);

private:

  CIMServerDiscoveryRep* _rep;
};

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_END

#endif /* Pegasus_CIMServerDiscovery_h */