Using the APIs to Specify an Instance

In practice, you will usually use the enumInstances method to return all instances of a given class. Then, use a loop structure to iterate through the instances In the loop, you can pass each instance to an association method. The code segment in the following example does the following:

1. Enumerates the instances in the current class (op) and the subclasses of the current class.

2. Uses a While loop to cast each instance to a CIMObjectPath (op),

3. Passes each instance as the first argument to the associators method.

This code example passes null or false values for all other parameters.

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Example 4–16 Passing Instances to the associators Method

 {
    ...
    Enumeration e = cc.enumInstances(op, true);
    while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
        op = (CIMObjectPath)e.nextElement();
        Enumeration e1 = cc.associators(op, null, null, 
                null, null, false, false, null);
    ...
    }           

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