RE: WIMS> CIM> How does one find the DefaultLanguage for a printer?

From: William A Wagner (wamwagner@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 13:50:36 EST

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    And we see again why prototyping is so important!

    Gentlemen, thank you.

    Bill Wagner

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-wims@pwg.org [mailto:owner-wims@pwg.org] On Behalf Of Ira
    McDonald
    Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:55 PM
    To: Richard_Landau@dell.com; Ira McDonald
    Cc: wims@pwg.org
    Subject: Re: WIMS> CIM> How does one find the DefaultLanguage for a printer?

    Hi Rick,

    Good catch! A BUG.

    As you say, this is an old property (pre DMTF/PWG Alliance).

    And sadly, the answer is NO, there's no reasonable way to set
    this property from the Printer MIB - the only one-to-one mapping
    would be for a *PrintService* from IPP "document-format-default"
    (as noted in the current ModelCorrespondence clause).

    We should DEPRECATE this DefaultLanguage property.
    And tell users to look at AssociatedPrintInterpreter for each
    Channel, instead (for PrintDevice, aka Printer). And to look
    at PrintServiceSettings.DocumentFormat (for PrintService).

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
    Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
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    On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM, <Richard_Landau@dell.com> wrote:
    > Ira, either there is a conceptual bug in CIM_Printer, or I have slipped a
    > cog and forgotten something that we agreed on long ago.  Please remind me.
    >
    > The property CIM_Printer.DefaultLanguage says that it "Indicates the
    default
    > printer language."  (This is PDL, not natural language.  And this is an
    old
    > property, not one that we added recently.)  However, in an SNMP printer,
    the
    > default PDL Interpreter is specified per Channel.  And there is no default
    > Channel.  Well, oops on me.
    >
    > Did we agree on a way to set this and I just forgot?  Is there an obvious
    > algorithm that I am being blind to?
    >
    > RSVP.
    >
    > rick
    >
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