1 mike  1.9 

  2 mike  1.25 Topical To-Do List
  3            ==================

  4 mike  1.1  

  5 mike  1.24 -   Instances:

  6 mike  1.23 

  7 mike  1.24     -   Implement CIMRepository::getProperty()

  8 mike  1.22 

  9 mike  1.24     -   Implement CIMRepository::setProperty()

 10 mike  1.21 

 11 mike  1.24     -   Implement CIMRepository::deleteInstance()

 12 mike  1.20 

 13 mike  1.24     -   Implement CIMRepository::modifyInstance()
 14            
 15                -   Implement CIMRepository::enumerateInstances()
 16            
 17                -   Implement CIMRepository::enumerateInstanceNames()
 18            
 19                -   Handle inheritance in all instance operations.
 20            
 21                -	Double check that all these operations work across protocol.
 22            
 23                -   Check that they have keys during validation.
 24            
 25            -   Associations:
 26            
 27                -   Implement CIMRepository::referencesOf()
 28            
 29                -   Implement CIMRepository::associatorsOf()
 30            
 31                -	Implement protocol stubs for these operations.
 32            
 33            -   Exceptions:
 34 mike  1.24 
 35                -	Clean up and consolidate exception classes.
 36            
 37                - 	Propagate underlying error messages across the CIM protocol.
 38            
 39            -   References:
 40            
 41                -	Validate arguments to CIMReference compound constructor and modifiers.
 42            	(namespaces, hosts, classnames, and keybindings)
 43            
 44                -   Be sure that escape sequences are handled inside of object names. For
 45            	example:
 46            
 47            	    X.key1="Hello \"You\""
 48            
 49            -   Protocol:
 50            
 51                -   Improve protocol tracing to show messages in both directions.

 52 mike  1.19 

 53 mike  1.18     - 	The TCPChannel::writeN() method blocks when the client and server
 54            	are in the same process. That is because the client cannot read
 55            	anything as long as writeN() is blocked on a synchronous write.

 56 mike  1.16 

 57 mike  1.18     - 	Figure out how to handle getProperty() return type.

 58 mike  1.10 

 59 mike  1.24     -   Provide ACE Channel implementation (for porting purposes)?
 60            
 61                -   Handle PARAMETER.REFARRAY in Procotol?
 62            
 63                -   Ignore extraneous XML elements (loosely valid).
 64            
 65            -   Porting:
 66            
 67                -	Replace "std::something" with "STD(something)"
 68            
 69                -   Replace "using namespace std" with "USING_NAMESPACE_PEGASUS"
 70            
 71            -   Aesthetics/Consistency/Usability:
 72            
 73                -  	Change getLength() and getSize() to just size(): "Brevity is the soul
 74            	of genius and of Lingerie". 
 75            
 76                -  	Add methods to get objects by their names, in addition to index. For
 77            	example:
 78            
 79            	    CIMProperty CIMClass::getProperty(const String& name);
 80 mike  1.24 
 81                -   Perform walkthrough to expose consistency problems.
 82            
 83                -   Distinguish between private and public classes (otherwise, users may
 84            	come to depend on classes with unstable interfaces).
 85            
 86            -   Documentation:
 87            
 88                -   Suggest newlines after methods.
 89            
 90                -   Suggest use of "/** ... */" instead of "///"
 91            
 92                -	Refine header file documentation.
 93            
 94                -	Write Pegasus Architecture Paper.
 95            
 96                -   Integrate DOC++ with make system (put all docs in doc tree):
 97            
 98            -   Namespaces:
 99            
100                -   Implement create and destroy namespace (according to the standard).

101 mike  1.6  

102 mike  1.24 -   Providers

103 mike  1.6  

104 mike  1.24     -   Add CIM-Server handles to provider interface.

105 mike  1.12 

106 mike  1.24     -   Implement MOF provider registration scheme (according to the standard).

107 mike  1.1  

108 mike  1.24 -   WBEM Query Language

109 mike  1.8  

110 mike  1.24     -	Find someone to work on standard.

111 mike  1.8  

112 mike  1.24     -   Implement leve-1 parser.

113 mike  1.2  

114 mike  1.24 -   MOF compiler:

115 mike  1.2  

116 mike  1.24     -   Work with Bob to identify work items.

117 mike  1.1  

118 mike  1.24 -   Threading

119 mike  1.1  

120 mike  1.24     -   Write thread queuing document (input and output thread queue per
121            	provider).

122 mike  1.1  

123 mike  1.24     -   Implement queuing.

124 mike  1.1  

125 mike  1.24     -   Make reference counted objects thread safe (Mutexing and atomic
126            	increments).

127 mike  1.1  

128 mike  1.24 -   Connectors

129 mike  1.1  

130 mike  1.24     -   Work out basic concepts (write paper).

131 mike  1.1  

132 mike  1.24     -	Package up pegasus in Install Shield application.

133 mike  1.1  
134            

135 mike  1.24 -   Install

136 mike  1.1  

137 mike  1.24     -   Need install mechanism for Unix and Windows.

138 mike  1.1  

139 mike  1.24 -   Interoperability

140 mike  1.1  

141 mike  1.24     -   Fix reported bugs.

142 mike  1.1  

143 mike  1.24 -   Internationalization

144 mike  1.1  

145 mike  1.24     - Handle UCS2 characters in XML (parsing and writing).

146 mike  1.1  

147 mike  1.24 -   Repository:

148 mike  1.1  

149 mike  1.24     - Export to MOF.

150 mike  1.1  

151 mike  1.24 -   Miscellaneous

152 mike  1.1  

153 mike  1.24     - Figure out how to handle CIM null values.

154 mike  1.1  

155 mike  1.24     - Generalize iteration.

156 mike  1.1  

157 mike  1.24     - Figure out how inheritance of keys works.

158 mike  1.1  

159 mike  1.24     - Investiage weak assocations.

160 mike  1.1  

161 mike  1.24     - Provide conversions between DateTime and time_t.

162 mike  1.1  

163 mike  1.24 -   Constraint hanlding

164 mike  1.1  

165 mike  1.24     - Enforce constraint qualifiers.

166 mike  1.1  

167 mike  1.24     - Disallow resetting size of fixed length arrays.

168 mike  1.1  

169 mike  1.24 -   Optimization/Tuning

170 mike  1.1  

171 mike  1.24     -   Shrink object sizes.

172 mike  1.1  

173 mike  1.24     -   Use lighter I/O system (than C++ streams).

174 mike  1.1  

175 mike  1.24     -   Run Purify on all sources (port to Sun first).

176 mike  1.1  

177 mike  1.24     -   Optimize clear method on arrays (to not release memory).

178 mike  1.1  

179 mike  1.24 -   Porting

180 mike  1.1  

181 mike  1.24     -   Port to Solaris

182 mike  1.1  

183 mike  1.24     -   Port to HPUX

184 mike  1.1  

185 mike  1.24     -   Port to AIX

186 mike  1.1  

187 mike  1.24 -   Testing

188 mike  1.1  

189 mike  1.24     -   Run Purify on all sources (port to Sun first).

190 mike  1.13 

191 mike  1.24     -   Run CIM/XML test suite.

192 mike  1.13 

193 mike  1.25 -   Server
194            
195                -   Use Service class in cimserver
196            
197                -   Implement Service class on Unix (daemonization from Comer book).