Patent ID: 8447782
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing an object in a provider framework comprising: receiving, by a data access layer of the provider framework, an object request from a client device, the object request identifying at least one object; applying, by the data access layer, a mapping module to the object request to access object data associated with the object request; generating, by the data access layer, the at least one object identified in the object request; forwarding, by the data access layer, the at least one object to the client device; wherein the method further comprises: wherein applying the mapping module to the object request comprises: wherein generating the at least one object identified in the object request comprises generating, by the data access layer, the at least one object identified in the object request based upon the object data associated with the requested object class and based upon the object data associated with the requested object property; wherein detecting the requested object class associated with the object request and the requested object property associated with the object request comprises detecting, by the data access layer, a disk object class associated with the object request and a disk capacity property associated with the object request; and applying the object property mapping module to the requested object property associated with the requested object class to access object data associated with the requested object property comprises: