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+# IBM(c) 2007 EPL license http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+#####################################################
+#
+#  xCAT plugin package to handle various commands that work with the
+#     xCAT tables for an XML interface 
+#
+#####################################################
+package xCAT_plugin::DButils;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use xCAT::Table;
+use xCAT::Schema;
+use Data::Dumper;
+use xCAT::NodeRange qw/noderange abbreviate_noderange/;
+use xCAT::Schema;
+use xCAT::Utils;
+use XML::Simple; #smaller than libxml....
+$XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER='XML::Parser';
+use Getopt::Long;
+1;
+
+#some quick aliases to table/value
+my %shortnames = (
+                  groups => [qw(nodelist groups)],
+                  tags   => [qw(nodelist groups)],
+                  mgt    => [qw(nodehm mgt)],
+                  #switch => [qw(switch switch)],
+                  );
+
+#####################################################
+# Return list of commands handled by this plugin
+#####################################################
+sub handled_commands
+{
+    return {
+            getAllEntries     => "DButils",
+            getNodeAttribs    => "DButils"
+            };
+}
+
+
+#####################################################
+# Process the command
+#####################################################
+sub process_request
+{
+    my $request  = shift;
+    my $callback = shift;
+    my $command  = $request->{command}->[0];
+    if ($command eq "getAllEntries")
+    {
+        return getAllEntries($request,$callback);
+    }
+    elsif ($command eq "getNodeAttribs") 
+    {
+        return getNodeAttribs($request,$callback);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        print "$command not implemented yet\n";
+        return (1, "$command not written yet");
+    }
+
+}
+#
+# Read all the rows from the input table name and returns the response, so 
+# that the XML will look like this
+#<xcatresponse>
+#<row>
+#<attr>attribute1</attr>
+#<value>value1</value>
+#<attr>attribute2</attr>
+#<value>value2</value>
+#.
+#.
+#.
+#<attr>attributeN</attr>
+#<value>valueN</value>
+#</row>
+#.
+#.
+#.
+#</xcatresponse>
+#  
+#
+sub getAllEntries
+{
+    my $request      = shift;
+    my $cb = shift;
+    my $command  = $request->{command}->[0];
+    my $tablename    = $request->{table}->[0];
+    my $tab=xCAT::Table->new($tablename);
+    my %rsp;
+    my $recs        =   $tab->getAllEntries("all");
+    unless (@$recs)        # table exists, but is empty.  Show header.
+    {
+	  if (defined($xCAT::Schema::tabspec{$tablename}))
+  	  {
+         my $header = "#";
+	      my @array =@{$xCAT::Schema::tabspec{$tablename}->{cols}};
+         foreach my $arow (@array) {
+           $header .= $arow;
+           $header .= ",";
+         }
+         chop $header;
+         push @{$rsp{row}}, $header;
+	      $cb->(\%rsp);
+	      return;
+	  }
+	}
+	# if there are records in the table
+    my $i=1;
+    my $row;
+    foreach my $rec (@$recs){  # for each record from the table
+      while ((my $attrname,my $value) = each(%$rec)) { # for each hash element
+        $row="row".$i;
+        @{$rsp{$row}{$attrname}}= $value; 
+      }
+      $i++; 
+    }
+# for checkin XML created
+#my  $xmlrec=XMLout(\%rsp,RootName=>'xcatresponse',NoAttr=>1,KeyAttr=>[]);
+       $cb->(\%rsp);
+
+        return;
+}
+# Read all the input attributes for the noderange  from the input table. 
+sub getAllNodeEntries
+{
+    my $request      = shift;
+    my $callback = shift;
+    my $nodes    = $request->{node};
+    my $command  = $request->{command}->[0];
+    my $table    = $request->{table}-[0];
+    my $attr    = $request->{attr};
+        return;
+}
+