Andreas Maier

Improve existing tutorials

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Improve [existing tutorials](https://pywbem.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial.html), for example: * Tutorials overview page: * Add link to CIM/WBEM introduction * Describe alternative to downloading by checking out repo * Remove list of areas not...

Cache GetClass results in ValueMapping, and ValueMapping objects

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The current `pywbem.ValueMapping` imlementation gets the required class every time a new ValueMapping object is created. This creates unnecessary repeated GetClass operations for the same class in the following typical...

PR #2902 transitioned the pywbem distribution archive build away from using setup.py to using the "build" package. That worked for the normal wheel archive, but not for the cythonized archive....

Support additional user-defined provider types for error injection

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The testing of the pywbemcli command is mostly done by invoking the command against a pywbem mock environment. As a result, the options for injecting errors into the processing of...

MOF compiler: Limitation that alias must be defined before its use

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In the MOF processed by the pywbem MOF compiler, an alias must be defined before it is used. In DSP0004, no such requirement is documented, so this behavior is considered...

Ideas for new tutorials

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This issue is for gathering ideas for new tutorials. New issues should be opened once these ideas are implemented.

The following classes have attributes for storing CIM-XML request and response data: * `WBEMConnection.last_raw_request` * `WBEMConnection.last_raw_reply` * `_RequestExceptionMixin.request_data` * `_ResponseExceptionMixin.response_data` For easy consumption by users, these attributes should be consistently...

**Note:** This PR is on top of PR #1481 - merge only after that one For details, see the commit message.

Steps: * Migrate to change fragment files using towncrier (PR #1481) * Migrate to pyproject.toml with automatic version calculation using setuptools-scm. This requires introducing a start version tag M.N.Ua0. (PR...

Migrated changelog to use towncrier

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For details, see the commit message. This is a first step for simplifying the procedures for releasing a version and starting a new version. For the complete proposal, see issue...