Examples — associators and associatorNames Methods (Sun WBEM SDK Developer's Guide)

Sun WBEM SDK Developer's Guide

Examples — `associators` and `associatorNames` Methods

The examples in this section show how to use the associators and associatorNames methods to get information about the classes associated with the Teacher and Student classes shown in the following figure. Notice that the associatorNames method does not take the arguments includeQualifiers, includeClassOrigin, and propertyList because these arguments are irrelevant to a method that returns only the names of instances or classes, not their entire contents.

Figure 4–2 Teacher-Student Association Example

Table 4–9 associators and associatorNames Methods


Example	Output	Description
`associators(Teacher`, `null`, `null`, `null`, `null`, `false`, `false`, `null`)	`Student` class	Returns associated classes and their subclasses.`Student` is linked to `Teacher` by the `TeacherStudent` association.
`associators`(`Student`, `null`, `null`, `null`, `null,false`, `false`, `null`)	`Teacher`, `MathTeacher`, and `ArtTeacher` classes	Returns associated classes and their subclasses. `Teacher` is linked to `Student` by the `TeacherStudent` association. `MathTeacher` and `ArtTeacher` inherit the `TeacherStudent` association from `Teacher`.
`associatorNames`(`Teacher`, `null`, `null`, `null`, `null`)	Name of the `Student` class	Returns the names of the associated classes and their subclasses`Student` is linked to `Teacher` by the `TeacherStudent` association.
`associatorNames`(`Student`, `null`, `null`, `null`, `null`)	`Teacher`, `MatchTeacher`, and `ArtTeacher` class names.	Returns the names of the associated classes and their subclasses. `Teacher` is linked to `Student` by the `TeacherStudent` association. `MatchTeacher` and `ArtTeacher` inherit the `TeacherStudent` association from `Teacher`.