10. Change log

This version of the documentation is development version 0.10.1 and contains the master branch up to this commit:

• Merge pull request #777 from pywbem/release_0.10.1 by Andreas Maier at 2017-09-27 23:18:07

  Release v0.10.1

10.1. pywbem v0.10.1

Released: 2017-09-27

10.1.1. Incompatible changes

None

10.1.2. Enhancements

• Added support for automatically finding out whether for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, the IUS version of the Python development packages should be used, dependent on whether the Python package is from IUS.
• Ensured that CIMDateTime objects for point in time values are timezone-aware when supplied with a timezone-naive datetime object. This does not change the behavior, but increases code clarity. Clarified that in the documentation of CIMDateTime. See issue #698.

10.1.3. Bug fixes

• Fix issue with MaxObjectCount on PullInstances and PullInstancePaths CIM_Operations.py methods. The MaxObjectCount was defined as a keyword parameter where it should have been be positional. This should NOT impact clients unless they did not supply the parameter at all so that the result was None which is illegal(Pull... operations MUST include MaxObjectCount). In that case, server should return error. Also extends these requests to test the Pull.. methods for valid MaxObjectCount and context parameters. See issue #656.
• Fixed TypeError “‘str’ does not support the buffer interface” during ‘setup.py develop’ on Python 3.x on Windows (issue #661).
• Fixed ValueError “underlying buffer has been detached” during ‘setup.py develop’ on Python 3.x on Windows (issue #661).
• Fixed names of Python development packages for SLES/OpenSUSE.
• Fixed that older versions of pip and setuptools failed or were rejected on some older Linux distros during make develop or make install, by upgrading them in these steps. See issues #759 and #760.

10.1.4. Build, test, quality

• Added Python 3.6 to the environments to be tested in Travis CI and Appveyor CI (issue #661).
• Added Python 2.6, 3.4 and 3.5 to the environments to be tested in Appveyor CI (issue #661).
• Fixed uninstall_pbr_on_py26.py to remove ‘pbr’ only if installed (issue #661).
• Fixed TypeError about dict ordering on Python 3.6 in unit test ‘test_nocasedict.TestOrdering’ (issue #661).
• Tolerated incorrect Unicode characters in output of commands invoked by os_setup.py (used for installation) that sometimes occurred on Windows (e.g. on the Appveyor CI with Python 3).
• Pinned the version of the wheel package to <0.30.0 for Python 2.6, because wheel removed Python 2.6 support in its 0.30.0 version.
• Improved the build process to ensure that half-built artefacts are removed before building (issue #754).

10.1.5. Documentation

• Documented that pywbem is not supported on Python 2.6 on Windows. and that 64-bit versions of Python are not supported on Windows.

10.2. pywbem v0.10.0

Released: 2016-12-20

10.2.1. Incompatible changes

• All methods of the WBEMSubscriptionManager class that returned instance paths (or lists thereof) in pywbem v0.9 now return the complete instances (or lists thereof) (pr #607).
• In wbemcli, removed the long global function names (e.g. EnumerateInstances), and kept the short names (e.g. ei) (issue #548).

10.2.2. Enhancements

• Experimental: Added new methods to WBEMConnection to provide integrated APIs for the non-pull and pull operations, reducing the amount of code app writers must produce and providing a pythonic (generator based) interface for the methods that enumerate instances and instance paths, enumerator associators and references. These new methods have names in the pattern Iter<name of original function>. Thus, for example the new method IterEnumerateInstances creates a new API to integrate EnumerateInstances and the OpenEnumerateInstancesWithPath / PullInstancesWithPath. (issue #466).

• Modified the XML parser to use SAX in place of minidom for operation response processing and indication processing. This is a significant reduction in memory usage (issue #498).

• Declared the WBEM indications API and the WBEM server API to be final. These APIs had been introduced in v0.9.0 as experimental.

• Added enter and exit methods to WBEMSubscriptionManager to enable using it as a context manager, whose exit method automatically cleans up by calling remove_all_servers() (issue #407).

• Added methods to the operation recorder (class BaseOperationRecorder) for disabling and enabling it (issue #493).

• The “Name” property of indication filters created via the WBEMSubscriptionManager class can now be controlled by the user (pr #607).

• Indication filter, listener destination and indication subscription instances created via the WBEMSubscriptionManager class, that are “owned”, are now conditionally created, dependent on the owned instances that have been discovered upon restart of the WBEMSubscriptionManager (pr #607).

• Modified operations that have a “PropertyList” attribute to allow the “PropertyList” attribute to have a single string in addition to the iterable. Previously this caused an XML error (issue #577).

• Added an option -s / –script to wbemcli that supports executing scripts in the wbemcli shell.

  Some example scripts are provided in the examples directory:

  • wbemcli_server.py - Creates a WBEMServer object named SERVER representing a WBEM server.
  • wbemcli_quit.py - Demo of terminating wbemcli from within a script.
  • wbemcli_display_args.py - Demo of displaying input arguments.
  • wbemcli_count_instances.py - Counts classes and instances in a server.
  • wbemcli_clean_subscriptions.py - Removes all subscriptions, filters, and listener destination instances in a server.
  • test_wbemcli_script.sh - A shell script that demos scripts.

• Improved robustness and diagnostics in os_setup.py (issue #556).

10.2.3. Bug fixes

• Fixed the use of a variable before it was set in the remove_destinations() method of class WBEMSubscriptionManager.
• Fixed a compatibility issue relative to pywbem 0.7.0, where the pywbem.Error class was no longer available in the pywbem.cim_http namespace. It has been made available in that namespace again, for compatibility reasons. Note that using sub-namespaces of the pywbem namespace such as pywbem.cim_http has been deprecated in pywbem 0.8.0 (issue #511).
• Fixed an AttributeError in the remove_all_servers() method of WBEMSubscriptionManager and dictionary iteration errors in its remove_server() method (pr #583).
• Fixed a TypeError in the TestClientRecorder operation recorder that occurred while handling a ConnectionError (this recorder is used by the –yamlfile option of run_cim_operations.py) (issue #587).
• Fixed several errors in recorder on Python 3 (issue #531).
• In wbemcli, several fixes in the short global functions (issue #548).
• Fixed name of python devel package for Python 3.4 and 3.5.
• Several changes, fixes and improvements on WBEMSubscriptionManager (issues #462, #540, #618, #619).
• Added a check for unset URL target in recorder (issue #612).
• Fixed access to None in recorder (issue #621)

10.2.4. Build, test, quality

• Added flake8 as an additional lint tool. It is executed with make check. Fixed all flake8 issues (issues #512, #520, #523, #533, #542, #560, #567, #575).
• Changed names of the pylint and flake8 config files to match the default names defined for these utilities (pylintrc and .flak8) (issue #534).
• Added CIM Schema archive to the repository, in order to avoid repeated downloads during testing in the CI systems (issue #49).
• Added git as an OS-level dependency for development (it is used by GitPython when building the documentation) (pr #581).
• Added wheel as a Python dependency for development. This package is not installed by default in some Linux distributions such as CentOS 7, and when installing into the system Python this becomes an issue (pr #622).
• Added retry in setup script to handle xmlrpc failures when installing prerequisites from PyPI.
• Fixed logic errors in pycmp compatibility checking tool.
• Changed makefile to skip documentation build on Python 2.6 due to Sphinx having removed Python 2.6 support (issue #604).
• Fixed UnboundLocalError for exc in setup.py (issue #545).
• Added an executable run_enum_performance.py to the testsuite to test pull performance. It generates a table of the relative performance of EnumerateInstances vs. OpenEnumerateInstances / PullInstancesWithPath performance over a range of MaxObjectCount, response instance sizes, and total number of instances in the response.
• Completed the test_client.py mock tests for all instance operations.
• Improved the tests in run_cim_operations.py.

10.2.5. Documentation

• Added the global functions available in the wbemcli shell to the documentation (issue #602).
• Improved usage information for the “Tutorial” section, to make usage of Jupyter tutorials more obvious (issue #470).
• Added “Installation” and “Development” sections to the documentation, and moved some content from the “Introduction” section into a new “Appendix” section. Added an installation trouble shooting section to the appendix (pr #509).
• Added a section “Prerequisite operating system packages” to the documentation that describes the prerequisite packages by distribution (pr #549).
• Fixed a documentation build error on Python 2.6, by pinning the GitPython version to <=2.0.8, due to its use of unittest.case which is not available on Python 2.6 (issue #550).
• Clarified the behavior for the default WBEMConnection timeout (None) (issue #628).
• Fixed a documentation issue where the description of CIMError was not clear that the exception object itself can be accessed by index and slice (issue #511).
• Added the wbemcli global functions to the documentation (issue #608).

10.3. pywbem v0.9.0

Released: 2016-09-06

10.3.1. Deprecations

• Deprecated the use of the value instance variable and ctor parameter of the CIMParameter class, because that class represents CIM parameter declarations, which do not have a default value. Accessing this instance variable and specifying an initial value other than None now causes a DeprecationWarning to be issued.
• Deprecated ordering comparisons for NocaseDict, CIMInstance, CIMInstanceName, and CIMClass objects. This affects the ordering comparisons between two such objects, not the ordering of the items within such a dictionary. Use of ordering operators on objects of these classes now causes a DeprecationWarning to be issued.
• Deprecated the methodname input argument of CIMMethod(), and renamed it to name. methodname still works but its use causes a DeprecationWarning to be issued.
• Deprecated the use of the verify_callback parameter of WBEMConnection. because it is not used with the Python ssl module and will probably be removed completely in the future. Its use now causes a DeprecationWarning to be issued. (Issue #297)

10.3.2. Known Issues

• Installing PyWBEM on Python 2.6 has a conflict with the pbr package from PyPI, resulting in a TypeError: “dist must be a Distribution instance”. This issue is specific to Python 2.6 and does not occur in any of the other supported Python versions (2.7, 3.4, 3.5). This issue can be mitigated by uninstalling the pbr package, or if that is not possible, by migrating to Python 2.7. See issue #26 on GitHub.
• MOF using names that are reserved keywords will fail to compile in the MOF compiler. For example, a CIM property named ‘indication’. See issue #62 on GitHub.

10.3.3. Clean Code

• Moved the following unused modules from the pywbem package directory into a new attic directory, in order to clean up the pywbem package:
  • cim_provider.py
  • cim_provider2.py
  • cimxml_parse.py
  • test_cimxml_parse.py
  • twisted_client.py
• Moved the script-related portions of the pywbem/mof_compiler.py module into the mof_compiler script.
• Moved the complete pywbem/wbemcli.py module into the wbemcli script.
• Removed half-baked code for HTTP proxy/tunneling support.

10.3.4. Enhancements

• Implemented pull operations per DMTF specification DSP0200 and DSP0201. This includes the following new client operations to execute enumeration sequences:

  • OpenEnumerateInstances
  • OpenEnumerateInstancePaths
  • OpenAssociatorInstances
  • OpenAssociatorInstancePaths
  • OpenReferenceInstances
  • OpenReferenceInstancePaths
  • OpenQueryInstances
  • PullInstances
  • PullInstancesWithPath
  • PullInstancePaths
  • CloseEnumeration

  The EnumerationCount operation is NOT implemented, because it is both deprecated and unusable. (Issue #9)

  Unit tests of the pull operations are included and mock tests are written for at least some parts of the pull operations.

• Implemented support for reading information from WBEM servers according to the DMTF WBEM Server Profile (DSP1071) and DMTF Profile Registration Profile (DSP1033) with a new WBEMServer class. Note that not everyhting in these profiles needs to be implemented in the WBEM server for this to work:

  • The WBEMServer class is a client’s view on a WBEM server and provides consistent and convenient access to the common elements of the server, including namespace names, interop namespace name, registered profile information, server branding, and central/scoping class algorithms.
  • Added unit tests for this new class in run_cim_operations.py and test_client.py.
  • Added a demo of the discovery abilities of the WBEMServer class in the examples/explore.py script.

  Experimental - This new class is experimental for pywbem version 0.9.0 because this is the initial release of a significant change and subject to changes to the API.

  (Issues #9, #346, #468)

• Implemented support for WBEM subscription management and a WBEM indication listener:

  • Added a WBEMListener class that allows the creation of a listener entity to receive indications.
  • Added a WBEMSubscriptionManager class that allows management of indication subscriptions, indication filters, and listener destination instances on the WBEM Server using the new WBEMServer class.
  • Added unit tests for these new classes and extended other existing tests accordingly, e.g. run_cim_operations.py.

  Experimental - These new classes are experimental for pywbem version 0.9.0 because this is the initial release of a significant change and subject to changes to the API.

  (Issues #66, #421, #414, #379, #378)

• The distribution formats released to PyPI have been extended. There are now:

  • Source archive (existed)
  • Universal wheel (new)

  (Issue #242)

• Starting with v0.9.0, pywbem no longer stores the distribution archives in the repository, because the process for releasing to PyPI creates new distribution archives instead of using the created ones. This makes it difficult to ensure that the archives stored in the repository are the same.

• Upgraded M2Crypto to use official 0.24.0 from PyPI.

• Added check for minimum Python version 3.4 when running on Python 3. That requirement was already documented, now it is also enforced in the code.

• Migrated API documentation to Sphinx.

• Improved documentation of many classes of the external API.

• Replaced [] and {} default arguments with None.

• Changed the return value of repr() for WBEMConnection, CIM type classes (e.g. Sint8, CIMDateTime), and CIM object classes (e.g. CIMInstance) so that they now return all attributes in a reasonable order, and are suitable for debugging.

• Clarified in the description of CIMClassName.__str__() and CIMInstanceName.__str__() that they return the WBEM URI representation of the class path and instance path.

• Changed the return value of str() for CIM object classes (e.g. CIMProperty) so that they now return a short set of the most important attributes for human consumption. Specifically, this resulted in the following changes:

  • For CIMProperty, reduced the complete set of attributes to a short set.
  • For CIMQualifierDeclaration, added the attribute value.

• Changes in the CIMError exception class:

  • Changed the behavior of the __str__() method to return a human readable string containing the symbolic name of the status code, and the status description. The previous behavior was to return a Python representation of the tuple status code, status description.
  • Added properties status_code (numeric CIM status code), status_code_name (symbolic name of CIM status code), and status_description (CIM status description).
  • Updated the documentation to no longer show the unused third tuple element exception_obj. It was never created, so this is only a doc change.

• Added CIM status codes 20 to 28, specifically to support the pull operations.

• Changed the ParseError exception to be derived from the Error base exception, so that now all pywbem specific exceptions are derived from Error.

• Added tocimxmlstr() as a global function and as methods on all CIM object classes. It returns the CIM-XML representation of the object as a unicode string either in a single-line variant, or in a prettified multi-line variant.

• Created tomof() for CIMProperty making common functionality available to both class and instance tomof() (PR #151)

• Added an optional namespace parameter to the WBEMConnection.CreateInstance() method, for consistency with other methods, and to have an explicit alternative to the namespace in the path component of the NewInstance parameter.

• The ClassName parameter of several operation methods can be specified as both a string and a CIMClassName object. In the latter case, a namespace in that object was ignored so far. Now, it is honored. This affects the following WBEMConnection methods: EnumerateInstanceNames, EnumerateInstances, EnumerateClassNames, EnumerateClasses, GetClass, DeleteClass.

• Enhanced the CIM integer data types (e.g. pywbem.Uint8()) to accept all input parameters that are supported by int().

• Added the concept of a valid value range for the CIM integer data types, that is enforced at construction time. For compatibility, this strict checking can be turned off via a config variable: pywbem.config.ENFORCE_INTEGER_RANGE = False.

• Extended wbemcli arguments to include all possible arguments that would be logical for a ssl or non-ssl client. This included arguments for ca certificates, client keys and certificates, timeout. It also modifies the server argument to use http:// or https:// prefix and suffix with :<port number> and drops the old arguments of –port and –no-ssl

• Improved Swig installation code by reinstalling Swig if it was installed but still cannot be found in PATH (e.g. if the installation was tampered with).

• Removed dependency on git (this was a leftover from when M2Crypto needed to be obtained from its development repo).

• Added debug prints for two probably legitimate situations where socket errors are ignored when the server closes or resets the connection. These debug prints can be enabled via the debug instance variable of the WBEMConnection object; they are targeted at development for investigating these situations.

• Extended run_cim_operations.py which is a live test against a server. It has only been tested against OpenPegasus but was extended to cover more details on more of the operation types and to create a test subclass to specifically test against OpenPegasus if OpenPegasus is detected as the server.

• Added description of supported authentication types in WBEM client API.

• Allowed tuple as input for PropertyList parameter of WBEMConnection operation methods. Documentation indicated that iterable was allowed but was limited to list. (Issue #347)

• Added a tutorial section to the generated documentation, using Jupyter Notebooks for each tutorial page. (Issue #324)

• Added the concept of operation recording on WBEM connections, that supports user-written operation recorders e.g. for tracing purposes. Added an operation recorder that generates test cases for the test_client unit test module. (Issue #351)

• Extended wbemcli for all pull operations. (Issue #341)

• Changed command line options of mof_compiler command to be consistent with wbemcli, and added support for specifying certificate related options. use of the old options is checked and causes an according error message to be displayed. Note, this is an incompatible change in the command line options. (Issue #216)

• Cleaned up exception handling in WBEMConnection methods: Authentication errors are now always raised as pywbem.AuthError (OpenWBEM raised pywbem.ConnectionError in one case), and any other bad HTTP responses are now raised as a new exception pywbem.HTTPError.

• Clarified MofParseError by defining attributes as part of the class init and moving some code from productions to the class itself (Issue #169). This makes the MofParseError exception more suitable for use from the productions themselves. The original definition was really only for use as a call from ply. Add tests for invalid qualifier flavors to unit tests and add test in mof_compiler.py for conflicting flavors ex. tosubclass and restricted in the same definition. This test uses the new MofParseError. (Issue #204)

• Extended PropertyList argument in request operations to be either list or tuple. (Issue #347)

• Added support for representing control characters in MOF strings using MOF escape sequences, e.g. U+0001 becomes “x0001”.

• Modified qualifier MOF output to stay within 80 column limits. (Issue #35)

10.3.5. Bug fixes

• Fixed KeyError when iterating over CIMInstance and CIMInstanceName objects.
• Fixed bug that MOF escape sequences in strings were passed through unchanged, into generated MOF, by removing needless special-casing code.
• Fixed bug with class MOF generation where output was not including array indicator ([]). (Issue #233)
• Moved class property MOF output processing to CIMProperty and fixed issue where default values were not being generated. (Issues #223 and #231)
• Fixed bug in method MOF output where array flag “[]” was left off array parameters.
• In the WBEMConnection.ModifyInstance() method, the class names in the instance and path component of the ModifiedInstance parameter are required, but that was neither described nor checked. It is now described and checked.
• In the WBEMConnection.ModifyInstance() method, a host that was specified in the path component of the ModifiedInstance parameter incorrectly caused an INSTANCEPATH element to be created in the CIM-XML. This bug was fixed, and a host is now ignored.
• Fixed a bug where the CIM datetime string returned by the str() function on CIMDateTime interval objects contained incorrect values for the minutes and seconds fields on Python 3. (Issue #275).
• Fixed an IndexError in cim_http.wbem_request() that occurred during handling of another exception.
• Fixed issue with Python 3 and https that was causing connect() to fail. This completely separates connect() code for Python 3 ssl module from Python 2 M2Crypto.
• Fixed problem that wbemcli in Python 3 when used without existing history file would fail with “TypeError: ‘FileNotFoundError’ object is not subscriptable”. (Issue #302)
• Fixed issue with tomof() output where datetime values were not quoted. (Issue #289)
• Eliminated automatic setting of toinstance flavor in mof_compiler when tosubclass is set. Also enabled use of toinstance flavor if defined in a class or qualifier declaration. (Issue #193)
• Fixed problem in class-level associator operations that namespace was classname when classname was passed as a string. (Issue #322)
• Fixed hole in checking where class CIMMethod allowed None as a return_type. (Issue #264)
• Fixed a documentation issue with associators/references return types. It was documented as a list of classes for class level return, but it actually is a list of tuples of classname, class. (Issue #339)
• Created a common function for setting SSL defaults and tried to create the same level of defaults for both Python2 (M2Crypto) and Python 3 (SSL module). The minimum level protocol set by the client is TLSV1 now whereas in previous versions of pywbem it was SSLV23. (Issue #295)
• Fixed issue where mof_compiler was setting values for compile of instances into the class object and also setting the values for the last compiled instance in a compile unit into all other compiled instances for the same class. Since the concept of compiling a path into compiled instances is flawed (there is no requirement to include all properties into a instance to compile that code was removed so that the path is NOT build into a compiled instance. Finally the qualifiers from the class were also included in compiled instances which was incorrect and an accident of the code. They are no longer included into the compiled instances.) (Issue #402)
• Fixed description in INSTALL.md to correctly describe how to establish OS-level prerequisites.
• Cleaned up the timeouts on SSL and created specific tests for timeouts against a live server. (Issues #363, #364)

10.4. pywbem v0.8.4

Released: 2016-05-13

10.4.1. Bug fixes

• Fixed an IndexError in cim_http.wbem_request() that occurred during handling of another exception.
• Fixed problem that wbemcli in Python 3 when used without existing history file would fail with “TypeError: ‘FileNotFoundError’ object is not subscriptable” (issue #302).
• Fixed issues with Python 3 and HTTPS that were causing the connecttion to fail. This completely separates the connect() code for Python 3 (using the Python SSL module) from the code for Python 2 (using M2Crypto) (issues #150, #273, #274, #288).

10.4.2. Enhancements

• Improved description in INSTALL.md to better describe how to establish OS-level prerequisites.
• Improved Swig installation code by reinstalling Swig if it was installed but still cannot be found in PATH (e.g. if the installation was tampered with).
• Removed dependency on git (this was a leftover from when M2Crypto needed to be obtained from its development repo).
• Added debug prints for two probably legitimate situations where socket errors are ignored when the server closes or resets the connection. These debug prints can be enabled via the debug instance variable of the WBEMConnection object; they are targeted at development for investigating these situations.
• Added check for minimum Python version 3.4 when running on Python 3. That requirement was already documented, now it is also enforced in the code.
• Enhanced the wbemcli script with options supporting certificates. For details, invoke with –help, or look at the online documentation. NOTE: The –no-ssl and –port options have been removed. Specify the protocol and port number in the server URL.

10.4.3. Clean code

• Removed half-baked code for HTTP proxy/tunneling support.

10.5. pywbem v0.8.3

Released: 2016-04-15

10.5.1. Bug fixes

• To address some M2Crypto issues, upgraded to use M2Crypto >=0.24 from PyPI.
• For Windows, using M2CryptoWin32/64 >=0.21 from PyPI, in order to avoid the Swig-based build in Windows.
• Improved the mechanism to build the LEX/YACC table modules, so that import errors for freshly installed packages (e.g. M2Crypto) no longer occur.

10.5.2. Enhancements

• Added Windows versions of WBEM utility commands: wbemcli.bat, mof_compiler.bat.

10.6. pywbem v0.8.2

Released: 2016-03-20

10.6.1. Bug Fixes

• Eliminated dependency on six package during installation of pywbem. (Andreas Maier)

10.6.2. Dependencies

• v0.8.x has the following dependencies on other PyPI packages (see install_requires argument in setup script):
  • M2Crypto
  • ply
  • six

10.7. pywbem v0.8.1

Released: 2016-03-18

10.7.1. Known Issues

• Installing PyWBEM on Python 2.6 has a conflict with the pbr package from PyPI, resulting in a TypeError: “dist must be a Distribution instance”. This issue is specific to Python 2.6 and does not occur in any of the other supported Python versions (2.7, 3.4, 3.5). This issue can be mitigated by uninstalling the pbr package, or if that is not possible, by migrating to Python 2.7. See issue #26 on GitHub.
• MOF using names that are reserved keywords will fail to compile in the MOF compiler. For example, a CIM property named ‘indication’. See issue #62 on GitHub.
• The Pulled Enumeration Operations introduced in DSP0200 1.3 are not supported in this release. See issue #9 on GitHub.
• Note that some components of this PyWBEM Client package are still considered experimental:
  • The twisted client module twisted_client.py.
  • The Python provider modules cim_provider.py and cim_provider2.py.
  • The CIM indication listener in the irecv directory. See issue #66 on GitHub.

10.7.2. Changes

• The MOF compiler is now available as the command ‘mof_compiler’ that gets installed into the Python script directory. It is now separate from the ‘mof_compiler’ module within the ‘pywbem’ package. In 0.7.0, the module was at the same time the script. (Andreas Maier)
• The WBEM client CLI is now available as the command ‘wbemcli’ that gets installed into the Python script directory. It is now separate from the ‘wbemcli’ module within the ‘pywbem’ package. In 0.7.0, the module was at the same time the script. (Andreas Maier)
• In 0.7.0, most symbols defined in the sub-modules of the ‘pywbem’ package were folded into the ‘pywbem’ package namespace, cluttering it significantly. The symbols in the ‘pywbem’ package namespace have been reduced to a well-defined set that is now declared the external API of the WBEM client library, and is supposed to be sufficient. If you find that you need something you were used to, please think twice as to whether that makes sense to be part of the external PyWBEM API, and if so, let us know by opening an issue.
• Since 0.7.0, some exceptions that can be raised at the external API of the WBEM client library have been cleaned up.

10.7.3. Enhancements

• Verify certificates against platform provided CA trust store in /etc/pki/tls/certs. Linux only. (Peter Hatina)
• Added ‘-d’ option to MOF compiler that causes the compiler to perform a dry-run and just check the MOF file syntax. This allows to more easily detect included MOF files when used together with the ‘-v’ option. (Jan Safranek)
• Added support for non-ASCII (Unicode) characters. (Michal Minar, Andreas Maier)
• Improved information in the message text of some exceptions (TypeError and KeyError in cim_obj.py, ValueError in cim_obj.py, and ParseError in tupleparse.py). (Andreas Maier)
• Moved the definition of the pywbem version from setup.py to __init__.py, in order to make it available to programs using pywbem as pywbem.__version__. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for direct iteration over NocaseDict objects using for and in by adding __iter__(), e.g. for use with CIMInstance.properties. (Andreas Maier)
• Added more instance attributes to be shown in repr() on CIMProperty and other classes in cim_obj. (Andreas Maier)
• Added and improved docstring-based documentation in the pywbem modules cim_operations, cim_http, cim_obj, cim_types, and the pywbem module. (Andreas Maier)
• Improved the way missing file:// URL support on Windows is handled, by now issuing a proper error message instead of stumbling across the missing socket.AF_UNIX constant. (Andreas Maier)
• Improved the way missing OWLocal authorization with the OpenWBEM server is handled on Windows, by now issuing a proper error message instead of stumbling across the missing os.getuid() function. (Andreas Maier)
• Improved Windows portability by no longer attempting to import pwd in case the userid is not set in the environment variables that are checked when the WBEM server is local. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for ExecQuery operation to twisted client. (Robert Booth)
• Added get() methods on CIMInstance and CIMInstanceName to step up to the statement that they behave like dictionaries w.r.t. properties and key bindings. (Andreas Maier)
• Improved help text of test_cim_operations.py test program. (Andreas Maier)
• Added an optional Params argument to InvokeMethod(), that is an ordered list of CIM input parameters, that preserves its order in the CIM-XML request message. This is to accomodate deficient WBEM servers that do not tolerate arbitrary order of method input parameters as required by the standard. The new argument is optional, making this a backwards compatible change of InvokeMethod(). (Andreas Maier)
• Cleaned up the public symbols of each module by making symbols private that are used only internally. Specifically, the following symbols have been made private: In cimxml_parse: _get_required_attribute, _get_attribute, _get_end_event, _is_start, _is_end. In cim_xml: _text (was: Text). (Andreas Maier)
• Cleaned up symbols imported by wildcard import by defining __all__ in each module with only the public symbols defined in that module (removing any symbols imported into the module), except for the following modules which define less than the complete set of public symbols in their __all__: mof_compiler, twisted_client, tupleparse, cimxml_parse, cim_http. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for using CDATA section based escaping in any requests sent to the WBEM server. The default is still XML entity reference based escaping, the CDATA based escaping can be turned on by setting the switch _CDATA_ESCAPING accordingly, which is a global variable in the cim_xml module. (Andreas Maier)
• Simplified the exceptions that can be raised by WBEMConnection methods, and improved the information in the exception messages. See description of WBEMConnection class for details. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for timeouts to WBEMConnection, via a new timeout argument, that defaults to no timeout. (This finally increased the minimum version of Python to 2.6. (Andreas Maier)
• Improved installation process of PyWBEM, particularly related to M2Crypto. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for Python 3. Issue #3 on GitHub. (Ross Peoples, Andreas Maier)

10.7.4. Bug Fixes

• Fix syntax error in CIM DTDVERSION error path. Allow KEYVALUE VALUETYPE attribute to be optional as specified in the DTD. (Andreas Linke)
• Added parsing of InvokeMethod return value and output parameters for Twisted Python client. (Tim Potter)
• Fixed cim_provider2.py to properly support shutdown() and can_unload() (called from CMPI cleanup() functions). Support was recently added to cmpi-bindings for this. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed XML parsing to accept SFCB-style embedded instance parameters. (Mihai Ibanescu)
• Use getpass module instead of pwd to detect local user to fix Win32. (Tim Potter)
• Re-throw KeyError exceptions with capitalised key string instead of lower cased version in NocaseDict.__getitem__(). (Tim Potter)
• Use base64.b64encode() instead of base64.encodestring() in Twisted client. (Mihai Ibanescu)
• Fix missing CIMDateTime import in Twisted client. (Mihai Ibanescu)
• Fixed CIMInstanceName rendering to string. It is now possible to pass the rendered string value as an instance path argument of a CIM method. (Jan Safranek, Michal Minar)
• For Python providers, fixed the comparsion of the Role parameter in association operations to be case insensitive, and removed an erroneous test that raised an exception when the property specified in the Role parameter was not also in the property list specified by the Properties parameter. (Jan Safranek)
• For Python providers, converted debug ‘print’ statements to trace messages that end up in the system log. (Jan Safranek)
• The CIM-XML parser no longer throws an exception when parsing a qualifier declaration. Note: The CIM-XML supported by this fix does not conform to DSP0201 so far. Further fixes are pending. (Jan Safranek)
• Fixed parsing errors for connection URLs with IPv6 addresses, including zone indexes (aka scope IDs). (Peter Hatina, Andreas Maier)
• Fixed the hard coded socket addressing family used for HTTPS that was incorrect in some IPv6 cases, by determining it dynamically. (Peter Hatina)
• Fixed the list of output parameters of extrinsic method calls to be returned as a case insensitive dictionary (using cim_obj.NocaseDict). (Jan Safranek)
• Fixed the checking of CIMVERSION attributes in CIM-XML to only verify the major version, consistent with DSP0201 (see subclause 5.2.1, in DSP0201 version 2.3.1). (Jan Safranek)
• Fixed error in cim_http.py related to stronger type checking of Python 2.7. (Eduardo de Barros Lima)
• Removed erroneous qualifier scopes SCHEMA and QUALIFIER from the MOF compiler (see DSP0004). (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed debug logging of CIM-XML payload (that is, conn.last_*request/reply attributes) for extrinsic method calls, to now be consistent with intrinsic method calls. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed TOCTOU (time-of-check-time-of-use) error when validating peer’s certificate. (Michal Minar)
• Added a check in the CIMInstanceName constructor that the classname argument is not None. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed the issue in the CIMProperty constructor that specifying a tuple for the value argument was incorrectly detected to be a scalar (and not an array). (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed the issue in the CIMProperty constructor that specifying a datetime or timedelta typed value resulted in storing the provided object in the value attribute, instead of converting it to a CIMDateTime object. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed the issue in the CIMProperty constructor that specifying a datetime formatted string typed value argument along with type=’datetime’ resulted in storing the provided string object in the value attribute, instead of converting it to a CIMDateTime object. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed several cases in the CIMProperty constructor of unnecessarily requiring the optional arguments type, is_array, embedded_object, or reference_class. These optional arguments are now only necessary to be provided if they cannot be implied from provided arguments (mainly from value). (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed the issue in the CIMProperty constructor that an embedded_object argument value of ‘object’ was changed to ‘instance’ when a CIMInstance typed value argument was also provided. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed the issue in the CIMProperty constructor that the first array element was used for defaulting the type attribute, without checking that for None, causing an exception to be raised in this case. (Andreas Maier)
• Added a check in the CIMProperty constructor that the name argument is not None. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed the issue that the CIMProperty constructor raised only TypeError even when the issue was not about types; it now raises in addition ValueError. (Andreas Maier)
• Changed the exception that is raised in NocaseDict.__setitem__() for invalid key types, to be TypeError in instead of KeyError. Updated the testcases accordingly. (Andreas Maier)
• Added checks for more than one argument and for unsupported argument types to the constructor of NocaseDict. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed incorrectly labeled namespace variables in twisted client. (Robert Booth)
• Fixed that WBEMConnection.last_raw_reply was not set to the current reply in case of parsing errors in the reply. (Andreas Maier)
• Reintroduced Python 2.6 support in cim_http.HTTPSConnection.connect() that disappeared in early drafts of this version: (Andreas Maier)
  • Removed SSLTimeoutError from except list; being a subclass of SSLError, it is catched via SSLError.
  • Invoked socket.create_connection() without source_address, if running on Python 2.6.
• Fixed bug where HTTP body was attempted ot be read when CIMError header is set, causing a hang. (Andreas Maier)
• Added CIM-XML declaration support for alternative PyWBEM client based on twisted. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for Windows to wbemcli.py, by making dependency on HOME environment variable optional, and adding HOMEPATH environment variable. Also, cleaned up the global namespace of wbemcli.py and made it importable as a module. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed errors in generated MOF (e.g. in any tomof() methods): (Andreas Maier)
  • Missing backslash escaping within string literals for n, r, t, “.
  • Representation of REF types was incorrect.
  • ‘=’ in array-typed qualifier declarations was missing.
  • Fixed size indicator was missing in array elements.
  • Qualifiers of method parameters were missing.
• Improvements in generated MOF: (Andreas Maier)
  • Changed order of qualifiers to be sorted by qualifier name.
  • Added empty line before each property and method in the class for better readability.
  • Method parameters are now placed on separate lines.
  • Moved generation of method qualifiers from class into method. This changes the behavior of CIMMethod.tomof() to now generate the method qualifiers.
• Fixed error where invoking mof_compiler.py with a file based URL that did not start with ‘file:’ failed with an undefined variable url_ in cim_http.py. Issue #1 on GitHub. (Klaus Kaempf, Andreas Maier)
• Fixed build error that raised a YaccError in mof_compiler.py: “Syntax error. Expected ‘:’”. Issue #2 on GitHub. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed issue where MOF compiler did not find include files with a path specified. Issue #4 on GitHub. (Karl Schopmeyer)
• Added missing LocalOnly parameter to EnumerateInstances() of the wbemcli script. Issue #33 on GitHub. (Karl Schopmeyer)
• Added workaround for Python 2.6 for Python issue 15881.
• Removed the lex.py and yacc.py files from PyWBEM, and used them from the ply package, which is their real home. This fixes a number of issues because the latest version is now used. Issue #8 on GitHub.i (Karl Schopmeyer)
• Fixed the issue that the LEX and YACC table modules were regenerated under certain conditions. Issue #55 on GitHub. (Karl Schopmeyer)
• Fixed bugs in the mof_compiler script. (Karl Schopmeyer)
• Fixed errors in the description of the qualifier operations in WBEMConnection. Issue #91 on GitHub. (Andreas Maier)

10.7.5. Testing

• Added support for running the unit test cases without having to be in the testsuite directory. This was done by setting up the DTD_FILE path correctly for any XML tests. (Andreas Maier)
• Improved the quality of assertion messages issued when testcases fail, to include context information and types. (Andreas Maier)
• Added docstrings to test cases. (Andreas Maier)
• Added testcases for CIMProperty.__init__() to be comprehensive. (Andreas Maier)
• In XML validation tests, added the expected XML root element. (Andreas Maier)
• Added a header to any error messages issued by xmllint. (Andreas Maier)
• Fix: Merged stderr into stdout for the xmllint invocation, xmllint error messages go to stderr and had been dropped before. (Andreas Maier)
• Fix: The “mkdir -p ..:” command in the comfychair testcase constructor created subdirectories named “-p” when running on Windows; replaced that command with os.makedirs(). (Andreas Maier)
• Fix: Replaced the “rm -fr ...” command in the comfychair testcase constructor with shutil.rmtree(), in order to better run on Windows. (Andreas Maier)
• Fix: In comfychair._enter_rundir(), moved registration of cleanup function _restore_directory() to the end, so cleanup happens only if no errors happened. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed a bug in pywbem/trunk/testsuite/test_tupleparse.py in function ParseCIMProperty.runtest(), where the use of real tab characters caused a few lines to be incorrectly indented, and as a result, ignored for the test. (Andreas Maier)
• Improved Windows portability in testsuite: Moved from using the Unix-only functions posix.WIFSIGNALED() and posix.WEXITSTATUS() for testing the success of subprocess.wait(), to simply testing for 0. (Andreas Maier)
• Added ability to invoke test_cim_operations.py with comfychair arguments, and added printing of exception information if an operation fails. (Andreas Maier)
• Migrated from comfychair to py.test, standard Python unittest, and to tox. (Andreas Maier)
• Added test_client.py with a few initial testcases. This is an end-to-end test concept that allows specifying test cases that cover the entire PyWBEM Client top to bottom. It mocks the socket layer and allows specifying the test cases in YAML, starting with input at the PyWBEM Client API (e.g. an operation and its parameters), the expected CIM-XML request at the socket payload level resulting from this input (the request is verified), the CIM-XML response that is to be generated, and finally an expected result at the PyWBEM Client API that is being verified. (Andreas Maier)
• Added use of Travis CI test environment. Commits to GitHub now trigger test runs on the Travis CI. A badge on the GitHub README page shows the current test result of the master branch, and links to the Travis site for the test results of the branches of any pull requests. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for reporting test coverage, using the Python ‘coverage’ package. Coverage is reported on stdout as part of testing, e.g. with ‘make test’ for the current Python environment, or with ‘tox’ for all supported Python environments. (Andreas Maier)
• Added multiple tests for client connection timeout. A mock test was added for both HTTP and HTTPs. However, this causes an error in python 2 with HTTPS so two new options were added to test_client.py. First, a new parameter ignore_python_version was added to the yaml to define a major version of python for which a particulare testcase would be ignored. Second a non-documente option was added to test_client.py to execute a single testcase if the name of that testcase is the only parameter on the test_client.py cmd line. Finally a whole new run_operationtimeout.py file was added to testsuite to throughly test for timeouts. This runs ONLY against particular versions of OpenPegasus because it required adding a new method to OpenPegasus. However, it established that the timeouts apparently now really do work in both python 2 and python 3 with both http and https. (see issue #363)

10.7.6. Clean Code

• Removed dangerous default parameter {} from CIMProperty and CIMInstanceName, and replaced it with None. To support that, added support for initializing an empty NocaseDict object from None. (Andreas Maier)
• In cim_obj, changed the use of the deprecated backticks to using %r in the format string (which produces the same result). (Andreas Maier)
• In the constructor of CIMInstanceName, added assertions to some paths that cannot possibly be taken based on the fact that the keybindings attribute is always a NocaseDict. They should be removed at some point. (Andreas Maier)
• Addressed PyLint issues: (Andreas Maier, Karl Schopmeyer)
  • Consolidated imports at the top of the module (after module docstring), consistent with the PEP-8 recommendation.
  • Ensured order of imports: standard, non-standard, pywbem, local (on a subset of modules only).
  • Replaced wildcard imports with specific imports, as much as possible.
  • Removed unused imports.
  • Addressed PyLint issues that are related to whitespace, continuation indentation, and line length.
  • Replaced all real tab characters with spaces.
  • Many more PyLint issues

10.7.7. Packaging / Build

• Fixed grammatical funkiness in the license text. No change to actual license - still LGPLv2. (Tim Potter)
• Added LICENSE.txt file to release. (Tim Potter)
• Added LICENSE.txt, NEWS, README and INSTALL files to distribution archive. (Andreas Maier)
• Fixed inconsistencies in license text in file headers to consistently say LGPL 2.1 or higher (The LICENSE.txt file has always been LGPL 2.1). (Andreas Maier)
• Removed confusing section about build from INSTALL file, to scope it just to the topic of installation. (Andreas Maier)
• Restructured pywbem/trunk subtree to move pywbem package files into a pywbem subdirectory. (Andreas Maier)
• Added a makefile (invoke ‘make help’ for valid targets). (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for checking the Python source code using PyLint. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for generating HTML documentation using epydoc, and included the documentation into the distribution archive. The syntax used in Python docstrings is reStructuredText markdown. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for installing OS-level prerequisites via the new setup.py script commands ‘install_os’ and ‘develop_os’. (Andreas Maier)
• Added support for installing Python-level prerequisites when installing in development mode using the setup.py script command ‘develop’. (Andreas Maier)

10.8. pywbem v0.7.0

Released: 2008-12-12

10.8.1. Bug Fixes

• Fixed enumInstances and references in cim_provider to do a deep copy of the model before filtering instances so provider writers are less surprised. (Bart Whiteley)
• Added CIMDateTime.__cmp__() so that CIMDateTime instances can be compared. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed data types of method return values for python providers. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed REF array out parameters in tupleparse.py. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed Array parameters with no elements. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed precision for real32 and real64 types. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed Array properties where is_array isn’t set in __init__. (Bart Whiteley)
• Added NocaseDict.__cmp__(self, other). (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed WBEMConnection.__repr__ for anonymous connections. (Tim Potter)
• Fixed XML encoding of CIMQualifierDeclarations. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed EnumerateQualifiers if there are no qualifiers. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fixed InvokeMethod to only send a LOCALCLASSPATH or LOCALINSTANCEPATH, not a CLASSPATH or INSTANCEPATH. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fix unexpected line break in basic auth header for long credentials. (Daniel Hiltgen)
• Fix Host: HTTP header when connecting to a unix domain socket. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fix deprecation warnings with Python 2.6. (Bart Whiteley)

10.8.2. Enhancements

• Added support for generating Pegasus provider registration MOF in cim_provider.codegen(). (Bart Whiteley)
• Implemented methods to parse indication export requests. (Bart Whiteley)
• Python provider code generation enhancements. (Bart Whiteley)
• Support for Pegasus Local authentication. (Bart Whiteley)
• Support for Pegasus and OpenWBEM Unix Domain Socket. (Tim and Bart)
• Added support for Pegasus non-compliant EMBEDDEDOBJECT XML attribute. (Bart Whiteley)
• Added CIMQualifierDeclaration.tomof(). (Bart Whiteley)
• Added a powerful MOF compiler. (Bart Whiteley)
• Added property filtering to CIMInstance. (Bart Whiteley)
• Added value attribute to CIMParameter. (Bart Whiteley)
• Rigged CIMInstance to automagically update CIMInstance.path.keybindings as key properties are set. (Bart Whiteley)
• Added cim_provider2.py: A new provider interface. Python providers using this interface can use the cmpi-bindings project within OMC (http://omc-project.org/) to run under any CIMOM supporting the CMPI interface. This is prefered to the old cim_provider.py interface that was used with the Python Provider Managers for OpenWBEM and Pegasus.
• Changed __init__.py to not import anything from cim_provider.py (or cim_provider2.py) into the pywbem namespace. Existing providers based on cim_provider.py can still work with a minor adjustment involving importing CIMProvider from pywbem.cim_provider. The codegen funtion can now be obtained with from pywbem.cim_provider import codegen, or from pywbem.cim_provider2 import codegen or similar.
• Added wbemcli.py command line utility. (Tim Potter)
• Pass keyword args in unix domain socket connection functions down to WBEMConnection(). (Tim Potter)

10.9. pywbem v0.6

Released: 2007-10-26

10.9.1. Licensing

• Relicensed from the GNU GPLv2 to the GNU LGPLv2.

10.9.2. API Changes

• Add a type keyword arg and attribute to CIMQualifier, similar to the CIMProperty object, to allow the creation of null qualifiers. (Tim Potter)
• Remove the toxml() method from CIM object classes. Use tocimxml().toxml() instead which specifies the CIM-XML representation of the object. (Tim Potter)
• CIMDateTime class should now be used instead of datetime.datetime and datetime.timedelta.
• Added a new method, CIMInstance.update_existing(). This behaves like update() on a dict, but only assigns new values to existing properties. It skips values for properties not already present in the instance. This is useful for honoring PropertyList within python providers.

10.9.3. Bug Fixes

• Explicitly specify charset=”utf-8” in HTTP Content-type header as this is required now by the Pegasus cimserver. (Tim Potter)
• Parse VALUETYPE elements that contain a TYPE attribute. This feature was introduced in version 2.2 of the CIM-XML DTD and produced by some CIMOMs such as the Java WBEM Server. (Tim Potter)
• Don’t require CreateInstance to have the path attribute set but if it is, use the namespace from it. (Tim Potter)
• Allow extrinsic methods to return object references. (Tim Potter)
• Fix CIMInstanceName to support more numeric types of keybindings. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fix datetime values to support utc offset. (Bart Whiteley)
• Fix http client to monitor the connection more closely (RFC 2616 section 8.2.2). Previously, a large request could cause a socket exception with no ability to read the response and respond to an authentication challenge.
• Fix NULL qualifiers to have a (required) type. (Martin Mrazik)
• Fix initialising CIMInstanceName keys from a NocaseDict. (Bart Whiteley)
• Return correct namespace in path for return value from GetInstance. (Tim Potter)
• Numerous bugfixes to Twisted Python client. (Tim Potter)
• Fix for x.509 SSL certificate handling. (Bas ten Berge)
• EnumerateClassNames() now returns an empty list instead of None if there are no classes. (Bart Whiteley)

10.9.4. Enhancements

• Support for OpenWBEM password-less local authentication. (Bart Whiteley)
• Support for embedded objects is described in DSP0201-2.2.0 (Bart Whiteley)
• New CIMDateTime class to deal with CIM-isms of datetimes. Most notably, datetime deals with timezone info poorly. (Bart Whiteley)
• Add InvokeMethod() support in Twisted Python client. (Tim Potter)

10.10. pywbem v0.5

Released: 2006-11-21

10.10.1. API Changes

• Many API changes were made to simplify the function and object interface of PyWBEM. Aspects of just about every CIM operation call and CIM object have changed. The major changes are:
  • The “LocalNamespacePath” keyword argument has been renamed to simply “namespace” for all CIM operations.
  • Replaced all object location classes with CIMInstanceName, and all instance classes with CIMInstance. CIMInstanceName now has “host” and “namespace” attributes to fully name a reference to an instance. The CIMInstance class now has a “path” attribute which is of type CIMInstanceName.
  • EnumerateInstances() now returns a list of CIMInstance objects (with path attribute set) instead of a list of CIMNamedInstance or tuples of (CIMInstanceName, CIMInstance).
  • All representations of properties can now be represented with the CIMProperty class.
• All classes now have a copy() method which return a deep copy of the object. PyWBEM makes extensive use of dictionary objects which are passed by reference in Python. Use the copy() method to create and manipulate objects without modifying them by accident.

10.10.2. Bug Fixes

• Fix parse bug when a CIMInstanceName is passed as the localobject parameter to WBEMConnection.InvokeMethod().
• Fix parsing of INSTANCE elements containing PROPERTY.REFERENCE elements bug found by Bart Whiteley. This turns up when processing associations. (Tim Potter)
• Handle extrinsic method calls that don’t return a value or any output parameters. (Tim Potter)
• Fixed parsing of PARAMETER.ARRAY and PARAMETER.REFARRAY to not require optional attrs. (Bart Whiteley)
• Atomic_to_cim_xml string generation for a datetime - was missing a >> ‘.’ in the string. (Norm Paxton)
• InvokeMethod did not provide for None in output parameters. (Norm Paxton)

10.10.3. Enhancements

• More parts of the class provider interface have been implemented. (Tim Potter, Bart Whiteley)
• Many case-sensitivity bugs, mostly in __cmp__ methods, were found and fixed. (Tim Potter)
• Implemented a test suite for maintaining backward compatibility and testing new features. (Tim Potter)
• Implemented ExecQuery. (Bart Whiteley)
• Allow a string classname to be passed as the localobject parameter to WBEMConnection.InvokeMethod(). (Tim Potter)
• Add missing qualifiers on array properties. (Bart Whiteley)
• Added code for performing asynchronous WBEM client operations using the Twisted Python framework. (Tim Potter)
• Allow extrinsic method calls that take parameters. (Tim Potter)
• Added cim_http.AuthError exception class. This is raised if the CIMOM returns a 401 (Unauthorized). Now the client can distinguish this condition, and (re)prompt for credentials. (Bart Whiteley)
• Created cim_obj.CIMParameter class. Added return type, class origin, propagated to CIMMethod. CIMParameter object now allows parameter types and qualifiers to be obtained. (Bart Whiteley)
• Implemented case-insensitive keys for property and qualifier dictionaries, as per the CIM specification. (Tim Potter, Bart Whitely)

10.11. pywbem v0.4

Released: 2005-11-15

10.11.1. Bug Fixes

• Correctly calculate value of Content-Length HTTP header to include opening XML stanza. (Szalai Ferenc)
• Fix syntax error when re-raising socket errors. (Pat Knight)

10.11.2. Enhancements

• Support for marshaling and unmarshaling CIM dates object into Python datetime objects. (Szalai Ferenc)
• Experimental module for making asynchronous WBEM calls with PyWBEM in Twisted Python. (Tim Potter)
• Add parameter type checking for object location classes. (Tim Potter)
• Allow caller to pass in a dictionary containing the location of the SSL certificate and key files as per the httplib.HTTPSConnection() class constructor. (Pat Knight)

10.11.3. API Changes

• Change association provider API functions to take a fixed parameter for the named object instead of a keyword argument. This breaks backward compatibility. (Tim Potter)
• Remove the CIMLocalNamespacePath class and replaced by a Python string. (Tim Potter)

10.11.4. Portability

• Don’t use UserDict.DictMixin base class as it only exists in Python 2.3 and higher. (Tim Potter)

10.11.5. Tests

• Add tests for parameter type checking for object location classes. (Tim Potter)
• Add tests for string representation of object location classes. (Tim Potter)