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#ifndef Pegasus_CIMProvider_h
#define Pegasus_CIMProvider_h

#include <Pegasus/Common/Config.h>
#include <Pegasus/Common/OperationContext.h>
#include <Pegasus/Provider/CIMOMHandle.h>
#include <Pegasus/Provider/ProviderException.h>
#include <Pegasus/Common/ResponseHandler.h>
#include <Pegasus/Provider/Linkage.h>

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

/**
    CIMProvider is the base class for the provider interface.  A provider
    must implement all the interfaces of the CIMProvider class and one or
    more of its subclasses (such as CIMInstanceProvider).  If a provider
    does not support any of the operations specified by the interfaces,
    it may just throw a CIMNotSupportedException.

    <p>Some of the parameters that are common to the provider operation
    interfaces are:

    <ul>
        <li>The OperationContext parameter contains information about the
        context for the specified operation, including the user name of the
        client requesting the operation.  It is the provider's responsibility
        to determine whether the user is authorized to perform the operation.
        If the operation should not be permitted, the provider must throw
        a CIMAccessDeniedException.</li>

        <li>A CIMObjectPath specifies the CIM object on which the operation
        is to be performed.  This parameter specifies the hostname, namespace,
        classname, and key values that uniquely identify a CIM instance.</li>

        <li>A ResponseHandler is a callback handle used by the provider to
        deliver response data to the CIM Server.</li>
    </ul>
*/
class PEGASUS_PROVIDER_LINKAGE CIMProvider
{
public:
    /**
        Default constructor for the abstract CIMProvider class.
    */
    CIMProvider();

    /**
        Destructs the CIMProvider instance.
    */
    virtual ~CIMProvider();

    /**
        Initializes the provider.  This method is called each time the
        provider is loaded and must complete before any of the other
        provider methods (other than terminate) are called.

        An exception thrown from this method indicates a provider
        initialization failure which prevents it from processing operation
        requests.

        @param cimom Reserved for future use.
    */
    virtual void initialize(CIMOMHandle & cimom) = 0;

    /**
        Performs any cleanup required before the provider is unloaded.
        This method may be called by the CIM Server at any time, including
        during initialization.  No other provider methods are called after
        this method is invoked.

        <p>Examples of cleanup a provider may perform in this method include:
        <ul>
            <li>Closing files and/or I/O streams</li>
            <li>Releasing resources such as shared memory</li>
            <li>Informing concurrently executing requests to complete
                immediately (perhaps by setting a global flag)</li>
            <li>Terminating subprocesses</li>
        </ul>

        <p>If the PegasusCreateProvider function dynamically instantiates the
        provider with the "new" operator, then the terminate() method must
        "delete" it:

            <pre>
            void MyProvider::terminate()
            {
                ...
                delete this;
            }
            </pre>

        <p>An exception thrown from this method is considered to be a provider
        error and is ignored.
    */
    virtual void terminate() = 0;
};

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_END

#endif