Conference azur::mcc

2535.0. "Registration of Child Entities" by CCIIS1::ROGGEBAND () Wed Mar 11 1992 12:44

    Hi,
    
    Can child entities have more than one identifier attributes ? My
    understanding was that child entities were stored as DNS attributes of
    the global entity. Is this correct ? 
    
    My problem is that I need to register "dummy" or Orphaned child
    entities, which have no attributes except a name and an address, but
    which are likely to send off unsollicited events whic may contain
    either of the identifiers as a source address.
    
    I thought of defining them as dynamic child entities, using the CREATE
    directive with the identifiers passed down in In-p to set up instances
    in the DNS namespace (using mcc_dns_add_identifiers) and implement a
    SHOW Identification entry point which will return the identifiers
    previously stored in DNS by the CREATE directive. 
    
    The user would thus have to CREATE his child entities, and then
    REGISTER them which would call the SHOW ID entry point. Will this work?
    
    Subsidiary question (there's always one ...) : When I add a child
    entity to an object uysing the Iconic Map PM, does it call the CREATE
    directive, or just the REGISTER ????
    
    Thanks all, amicalement,
    
    Philippe.

    >Subsidiary question (there's always one ...) : When I add a child
    >entity to an object uysing the Iconic Map PM, does it call the CREATE
    >directive, or just the REGISTER ????
    
    The Iconic map will issue a CREATE if the child supports it, then issue
    the REGISTER and SET REFERENCE if it has a REGISTER directive.
    
    /Jim