Directions and Priorities for pywbem 1.1.0

[andy-maier]

For information:

• Open issues targeting 1.1.0
• Open issues not targeting any milestone

Items for 1.1.0:

• Ongoing items in each release:
  • Resolve open bugs
  • Improve test coverage for 1.1.0 (issue Improve test coverage for 1.1.0 #2353) - DONE
• Review current experimental functionality for finalization:
  • None
• Enhancements for MOF compiler:
  • MOF compiler: Limitation that instances with alias must have initialized key properties (issue MOF compiler: Remove req that instances with alias must have any key props initialized #1079) - DONE
• Efficiency / speed enhancements:
  • Make creation of mock environment faster (issue Make creation of mock environment faster #2365) - Prio 1 - DONE
• Testing:
  • Mock tests incomplete (issue Mock tests incomplete #2327) - DONE
  • Additional tests for Iter operations (issue Additional tests for Iter operations #840) - DONE
  • Mof_compiler embeddedinstance processing needs tests (issue Mof_compiler embeddedinstance processing needs tests #464) - DONE
• Packaging / installation:
  • Make NocaseDict public (issue Make NocaseDict public and use the public version #2356) - DONE in 1.0.0

Candidates for future releases:

• Review current experimental functionality for finalization:
  • Mock support - candidate for finalization in 1.2.0
  • Operation recorder support
  • SI units support
• Enhancements for mock support:
  • Mock: Add option to disable class and qualifier operations (issue Mock: Add option to disable class and qualifier operations #2317)
  • Mock: Create container packaging to define mock functionality installation (issue Create container packaging to define mock functionality installation #2409)
  • Implement ExecQuery in pywbem_mock (issue Implement ExecQuery in pywbem_mock #2064)
• Enhancements for MOF compiler:
  • Add testcases to MOF compiler (issue Add testcases to MOF compiler #15)
  • MOF_Compiler and pragma namespace (issue MOF_Compiler and pragma namespace  #2256)
  • Refactor MOF compiler and support principles for external behavior (issue Refactor MOF compiler and support principles for external behavior #2217)
  • mof_compiler qualifierdecl prerequisites for compile (issue mof_compiler qualifierdecl prerequisites for compile #1978)
  • MOF compiler: Limitation that alias must be defined before its use (issue MOF compiler: Limitation that alias must be defined before its use #1078)
  • MOF compiler does not support EmbeddedObject qualifier with class definition (issue MOF compiler does not support EmbeddedObject qualifier with class definition #2340)
• Other functional enhancements:
  • More root cause info in the exception when CA cert verification fails (issue More root cause info in the exception when CA cert verification fails #2036)
  • pywbem iter...() requests and FilterQuery (issue pywbem iter...() requests and FilterQuery #1801)
  • CIM-XML: Support for CORRELATOR element (issue CIM-XML: Support for CORRELATOR element #2053)
• Efficiency / speed enhancements:
  • Cache GetClass results in ValueMapping, and ValueMapping objects (issue Cache GetClass results in ValueMapping, and ValueMapping objects #2305)
  • Migrate cim_xml from minidom to ElementTree (issue Migrate cim_xml from minidom to ElementTree #2121)
  • Indication throughput on windows (issue Indication throughput on windows. #528)
  • Redesign of CIM-XML parsing (issue Redesign of CIM-XML parsing -> save the code #1679)
• Testing:
  • Implement tests for mocker method ModifyClass (issue Implement tests for mocker method ModifyClass #2210)
  • Convert test_mof_compiler.py from unittest to pytest (issue Convert test_mof_compiler.py from unittest to pytest #2178)
  • Tests with CA-chain server certificates (issue Tests with CA-chain server certificates #2038)
  • test_recorder.py test displays 4 logs when none should be displayed (issue test_recorder.py test displays 4 logs when none should be displayed #1222)
  • Add tests for MOF_Compiler Cmd Line (issue Add tests for MOF_Compiler Cmd Line #730)
  • Improve Testing indications/subscriptions in run_cimoperations.py (issue Improve Testing indications/subscriptions in run_cimoperations.py #471)
  • Need test of mof_compile script (issue Need test of mof_compiler script #428)
  • No test for a class with default property values in test_mof_compiler.py (issue No test for a class with default property values in test_mof_compiler.py #403)
  • Need tests for the indication listener (issue Need tests for the indication listener. #362)
  • Convert run_operationtimeouts.py into an end2end testcase (issue Create end2end testcases from run_operationtimeouts.py #2181)
  • Convert run_cim_operations.py into an end2end testcase (issue Convert run_cim_operations.py into an end2end testcase #2180)
• Cleanup:
  • Garbage objects caused by pywbem.Statistics class (issue Garbage objects caused by pywbem.Statistics class #2122)
  • byte/unicode inconsistencies in stored requests and responses (issue byte/unicode inconsistencies in stored requests and responses #2109)
  • ResourceWarnings in py3 during test (issue ResourceWarnings in py3 during test #86)
• Documentation / examples / tutorials:
  • Improve existing tutorials (issue Improve existing tutorials #2197)
  • Add tutorials (see issue Ideas for new tutorials #1416)
• Higher level functions / profiles:
  • Jobs manager extension (issue Jobs manager extension -> save the code #810)
  • Support WBEM Server profile
  • Discussion point: We want to move support for mgmt profiles into a separate Git repo for profile support.