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Mechanism for converting text output into objects

  • US 7,665,074 B2
  • Filed: 11/29/2004
  • Issued: 02/16/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • parsing, within an object-based administrative tool framework, an input data stream and based on data being derived from the parsing, to instantiate one or more application programming interfaces (APIs), wherein at least one or more APIs is utilized to construct one or more objects to represent the parsed data, populate and validate contents of the one or more objects, and pass the one or more objects through a pipeline being exposed within a user-interface command application for further processing;

    creating a unique template describing a text output of a traditional command, the template comprising an object state indicator for determining whether a live object is to be created, wherein the created live object includes a method that is directly invocable by one of the one or more APIs within the object-based administrative tool framework, wherein the template includes a field indicator and a corresponding field pattern; and

    converting, when the object state indicator does not indicate creating the live object, the text output into a dead object, the text output not being in a standardized format and the dead object not having a method that is directly invocable, wherein converting the text output into a dead object includes invoking one of the one or more APIs to create a hash object; and

    wherein the field indicator and the field pattern are utilized by the one or more APIs to process one or more objects created within the object-based administrative tool framework.

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