NAME

       CMCIClientFT.getClass() - Get class as reference

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cmci.h>

       CMPIConstClass*
       CMCIClientFT.getClass(CMCIClient*cl,
                      CMPIObjectPath*op,
                      CMPIFlagsflags,
                      char**properties,
                      CMPIStatus*rc);

DESCRIPTION

       Get  Class  using  op  as  reference.  The  content of the returned class structure can be
       controled using the flags parameter.

       Arguments are the client object pointer cl, ObjectPath object  pointer  op  that  contains
       namespace  and classname components, flags to affect the returned class structure content,
       properties array, where if not NULL the members of the array define one or  more  Property
       names, and rc the CMPI return status (suppressed when NULL).

       The  flags  argument  is a bit mask that can contain combinations of the following flags -
       CMPI_FLAG_LocalOnly, CMPI_FLAG_IncludeQualifiers and CMPI_FLAG_IncludeClassOrigin.

       The properties array defines what properties should be returned for the  class.   If  this
       argument  is  not  NULL, only the class properties in the list are returned.  If it's NULL
       all class properties are returned.

RETURN VALUE

       When successful the CMCIClientFT.getClass() function returns a pointer to a CMPIConstClass
       object  and  sets  a  successful status code in rc.  When unsuccessful it returns NULL and
       sets the rc argument with the error code and and corresponding error string.

ERRORS

EXAMPLES

          CMCIClient *cc;
          CMPIObjectPath * objectpath;
          CMPIInstance * instance;
          CMPIEnumeration * enumeration;
          CMPIClass *class;
          CMPIStatus status;

          /* Setup a conncetion to the CIMOM */
          cc = cmciConnect("localhost", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);

          objectpath = newCMPIObjectPath("root/cimv2", "Linux_ComputerSystem", NULL);
          class = cc->ft->getClass(cc, objectpath, 0, NULL, &status);

          if (!status.rc) {       fprintf(stderr,  "operation  error  code  %d  description  %s0,
                      status.rc, status.msg->hdl);      abort();
          }

CONFORMING TO

SEE ALSO

       Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) - OpenGroup,
       CMCIClient(3), CMPIConstClass(3), CMPIObjectPath(3), CMPIFlags(3), CMPIStatus(3)