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#ifndef Pegasus_Filtering_h
#define Pegasus_Filtering_h

#include <Pegasus/Common/Config.h>
#include <Pegasus/Common/CIMClass.h>
#include <Pegasus/Common/CIMInstance.h>
#include "Linkage.h"

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

/** This class provides static methods for "filtering" instances and classes,
    which involves removing undesired properties and qualifiers as specified
    by the following parameters:

        <pre>
        localOnly - discard non-local class and instance features.
        includeQualifiers - discard qualifiers if false.
        includeClassOrigin - discard class origian if false.
        propertyList - if non-null, discard properties not in this list.
        </pre>
*/
class PEGASUS_REPOSITORY_LINKAGE Filtering
{
public:

    static void filterInstance(
        CIMInstance& cimInstance,
        Boolean localOnly,
        Boolean includeQualifiers,
        Boolean includeClassOrigin,
        const CIMPropertyList& propertyList);

    static void filterClass(
        CIMClass& cimClass,
        Boolean localOnly,
        Boolean includeQualifiers,
        Boolean includeClassOrigin,
        const CIMPropertyList& propertyList);

private:

    Filtering();

    ~Filtering();
};

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_END

#endif /* Pegasus_Filtering_h */