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+# IBM(c) 2007 EPL license http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+
+=head1
+  xCAT plugin package to handle getpartition command
+  Generally, the getpartitioin command is called from the stateless 
+    node during the booting period to get the partition configureation
+    infomation to part the hard disk on the stateless node and to 
+    manage the local disk space for statelite and swap space.
+=cut
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+package xCAT_plugin::getpartition;
+use xCAT::Utils;
+use xCAT::MsgUtils;
+use xCAT::Table;
+use xCAT::NodeRange;
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+
+=head3  handled_commands
+
+Return list of commands handled by this plugin
+
+=cut
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub handled_commands
+{
+    return {'getpartition' => "getpartition"};
+}
+
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+
+=head3  process_request
+
+  Process the command
+
+=cut
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------
+sub process_request
+{
+    my $request  = shift;
+    my $callback = shift;
+    my $subreq   = shift;
+
+    my $client;
+    if ($request->{'_xcat_clienthost'}) {
+      $client = $request->{'_xcat_clienthost'}->[0];
+    }
+
+    if ($client) { ($client) = noderange($client) };
+    unless ($client) { #Not able to do identify the host in question
+       xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S","Received syncfiles from $client, which couldn't be correlated to a node (domain mismatch?)");
+      return;
+    }
+
+    parsepartition($client,$callback,$subreq);
+}
+
+
+#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+=head3  
+
+    parseparition
+    
+        Description: Read the partition configuration file from 
+          linuximage.partitionfile, parse the file and send back the partition
+          parameters to the node.
+        Arguments:
+        Returns: 0 - failed; 1 - succeeded;
+=cut
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub parsepartition{
+    my $node = shift;
+    my $callback = shift;
+    my $subreq = shift;
+
+    # get the partition file from linuximage.partitionfile
+    my $partfile;
+    my $rsp;
+
+    my $provmethod;
+    my ($os, $arch, $profile);
+
+    my $nttab = xCAT::Table->new('nodetype', -create=>1);
+    if ($nttab) {
+        my $ntent = $nttab->getNodeAttribs($node, ['provmethod', 'os', 'arch', 'profile']);
+        unless ($ntent) {
+            push @{$rsp->{data}}, "Error: No entry in nodetype table";
+            $callback->($rsp);
+            return;
+        }
+        $provmethod = $ntent->{'provmethod'};
+        $os = $ntent->{'os'};
+        $arch = $ntent->{'arch'};
+        $profile = $ntent->{'profile'};
+    } else {
+        push @{$rsp->{data}}, "Error: Could not open nodetype table";
+        $callback->($rsp);
+        return;
+    }
+
+    my $imagename;
+    if (($provmethod ne 'install') and ($provmethod ne 'netboot') and ($provmethod ne 'statelite')) {
+        $imagename = $provmethod;
+    } else {
+        $imagename = "$os-$arch-$provmethod-$profile";
+    }
+	    
+    my $linuximagetab = xCAT::Table->new('linuximage', -create=>1);
+    if ($linuximagetab) {
+        my $lient = $linuximagetab->getAttribs({imagename => $imagename}, ['partitionfile']);
+        unless  ($lient) {
+            push @{$rsp->{data}}, "Error: No entry in linuximage table";
+            $callback->($rsp);
+            return;
+        }
+        $partfile = $lient->{'partitionfile'};
+    } else {
+        push @{$rsp->{data}}, "Error: Could not open linuximage table";
+        $callback->($rsp);
+        return;
+    }
+
+    my $cfgfile;
+    if ($partfile =~ /s:(.*)/) {
+        # It's a script that could be run directly to do the partition configuring
+        $cfgfile = $1;
+        push @{$rsp->{data}}, "type=script";
+        #push @{$rsp->{data}}, "enable=yes";
+    } else {
+        $cfgfile = $partfile;
+        push @{$rsp->{data}}, "type=format";
+    }
+
+    unless (-r $cfgfile) {
+        push @{$rsp->{data}}, "Error: Could not read the file $1";
+        $callback->($rsp);
+        return;
+    }
+    open (FILE, "<$cfgfile");
+    push @{$rsp->{data}}, <FILE>;
+    $callback->($rsp);
+    return;
+
+
+}
+
+1;