The scds_get_ext_property() function retrieves the value of a given extension property.

The name of the property is first looked up in the list of properties specified in the method argument list ( argv[], which was parsed by scds_initialize()). If the property name is not in the method argument list, it is retrieved using the Sun Cluster API. See scha_calls(3HA).

Upon successful completion, the value of the property is placed in the appropriate variable in the union in a scha_extprop_value_t structure and a pointer to this structure is passed back to the caller in property_value.

You are responsible for freeing memory by using scds_free_ext_property().

You can find information about the data types scha_prop_type_t and scha_extprop_value_t in scha_calls(3HA) and in the <scha_types.h> header file.

DSDL provides convenience functions to retrieve the values of some of the more commonly used resource extension properties. See the scds_property_functions(3HA) man page.

The following parameters are supported:

handle

The handle returned from scds_initialize(3HA)

property_name

Name of the property being retrieved

property_type

Property value type. Valid types are defined in scha_calls(3HA) and property_attributes(5).

property_value

Pointer to a property value

The scds_get_ext_property() function returns the following:

0

The function succeeded.

non-zero

The function failed.

SCHA_ERR_INVAL

RTR file does not define the specified property.

SCHA_ERR_NOERR

Indicates the function succeeded.

Other values

Indicate the function failed. See scha_calls(3HA) for the meaning of the failure codes.

/usr/cluster/include/libdsdev.h

Include file

/usr/cluster/lib/libdsdev.so

Library

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

scds_free_ext_property(3HA), scds_initialize(3HA), scds_property_functions(3HA), scha_calls(3HA), rt_reg(4), attributes(5), property_attributes(5)

Only the values of extension properties defined in the RTR file can be retrieved using this function. See rt_reg(4). If the extension property is not defined in the RTR file, SCHA_ERR_INVAL is returned.