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This version contains all fixes up to pywbem 0.14.6.
Released: 2019-12-01
**Deprecations:**
* The wbemcli command has been deprecated. Pywbem 1.0.0 will remove the wbemcli
command. The recommended replacement is the pywbemcli command from the
pywbemtools package on Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/pywbemtools/.
Some of the reasons for the intended removal are: (See issue 1932)
- Wbemcli does not have a command line mode (i.e. a non-interactive mode), but
pywbemcli does.
- The interactive mode of wbemcli is more of a programming environment than
an interactive CLI, and that makes it harder to use than necessary.
Pywbemcli has an interactive mode that uses the same commands as in the
command line mode. If you need an interactive programming prompt e.g. for
demonstrating the pywbem API, use the interactive mode of the python
command, or Python's IDLE.
- Pywbemcli provides more functionality than wbemcli, e.g. server commands,
persistent connections, class find, instance count, or multiple output
formats.
**Bug fixes:**
* Fixed that the embedded_object attribute was not copied in CIMProperty.copy().
* Fixed that inconsistent names (between key and object name) were not detected
when setting CIMMethod.parameters from an input dictionary.
* Docs: Fixed errors in description of CIMInstance.update_existing().
* Added dependency on pywin32 package for Windows, and pinned it to version 225
to work around an issue in its version 226. (See issue 1946)
* Modified pywbem_mock to create the instance path of new instances
created by the compiler. Previously, the mocker generated an exception
if the path for a compiler created new instance was not set by the
compiler using the instance alias. That requirement has been removed so
the mock repository will attempt to create the path (which is required
for the mock repository) from properties provided in the new instance.
If any key properties of the class are not in the instance it will generate
an exception. This is backward compatible since the mocker will accept
paths created by the compiler. The incompatibility is that the mocker
tests for the existance of all key properties. (see issue 1958)
* Circumvented removal of Python 2.7 in Appveyor's CygWin installation
by manually installing the python2 CygWin package. (See issue 1949)
* Fixed issue with MOFCompiler class where mof_compiler script was not writing
the new classes and instances to the remote repository defined with the -s
parameter. (see issue 1956 )
* Fixed issue with mof_compiler and mof rollback where instances were
not removed when rollback was executed. This was caused by MOFWBEMConnection
code that did not put correct paths on the instances when they were
inserted into the local repository so the rollback delete of the instances
could not identify the instances. (see issue 1158)
* Fixed several install issues with the lxml, flake8, pywin32, pip, setuptools,
and wheel packages on Python 3.8 on Windows. (See issues 1975, 1980).
**Enhancements:**
* Removed the use of the 'pbr' package because it caused too many undesirable
side effects. As part of that, removed PKG-FILE and setup.cfg and went back
to a simple setup.py file. (See issues 1875, 1245, 1408, 1410)
* Code: Fixed pywbem_mock issue where CreateInstance was not handling the case
sensitivity of property cases if the instance property name case was different than the
class property name case. While not legally incorrect the created instance
looks bad. See issue 1883
* Code: Fixed pywbem_mock issue where ModifyInstance not handling case
sensitivity of property cases if the instance property name case was
different than the class property name case. Modify failed if
the case of property names did not match. Fixed the case test error and
put the class defined proerty name into the modified instance. See issue 1887
* Fix issue in mof compiler where mof instance that duplicates existing instance
path can get lost with no warning. NOTE: This does not happen in the
standalone compiler because it creates a duplicate instance issue 1852
but depending on the implementation of ModifyInstance for the compiler,
it can simply lose the instance. See issue 1894
* Fix issue in pywbem_mock where instances with duplicate paths defined in mof and
put into the mocker repository were originally accepted as separate instances
but fixed to cause an exception in issue 1852, conform to the DMTF spec
definition that requires that the second instance modify the first.
Fix issue in the mof_compiler where the CreateInstance retry logic was
first doing a ModifyInstance and if that failed then trying a DeleteInstance
and CreateInstance. We removed the DeleteInstance/CreateInstance logic and
insured that an exception would occur if the ModifyInstance failed.
See issue 1890
* Code: Fix issue with pywbem_mock that allows duplicate instances to be
inserted into the mock repository when mof instances are compiled. Duplicate
instances (CIMInstanceName) will now cause an exception. See issue 1852
* Added support for byte string values in keybindings of CIMInstanceName
method to_wbem_uri(), consistent with other methods.
* Test: Added Python 3.8 to the tested environments. (See issue 1879)
* Clarified that namespace and host will be ignored when the `ResultClass` and
`AssocClass` parameters of association operations are specified using a
`CIMClassName` object. (See issue 1907)
* Added capability to log calls to WBEM server from mof_compile script. AAdds
an option to the cmd line options to enable logging.
* Added SSL related issues to the Troubleshooting section in the
Appendix of the docs, and added the OpenSSL version to the
`pywbem.ConnectionError` exceptions raised due to SSL errors for better
diagnosis. (See issues 1950 and 1966)
* Added 'twine check' when uploading a version to Pypi, in order to get
the README file checked before uploading.
**Cleanup:**
* Removed unnecessary code from cim_obj._scalar_value_tomof() that processed
native Python types int, long, float. These types cannot occur in this
function, so no tests could be written that test that code.