Constructing and Destroying SoftwareResourceDescription Instances

Constructing and destroying a GATSoftwareResourceDescription is similar to creating and destroying a GATHardwareResourceDescription instance. One uses the following function

GATSoftwareResourceDescription GATSoftwareResourceDescription_Create(GATTable_const attributes)

This function takes a GATTable instance and returns a GATSoftwareResourceDescription upon success, upon failure it returns NULL. The passed GATTable contains a description, i.e. various name/value paris, of the returned GATSoftwareResourceDescription. The supported name/value pairs which can occur in this GATTable instance are given in table

Again, if a particular name/value pair is not specified in a particular GATTable instance, then GAT assumes that this name/value pair can take on any value. So, for example, if the there is no key os.release in a GATTable instance, then GAT assumes that this property can take on any value.

To destroy the so created GATSoftwareResourceDescription one uses the following function

void GATSoftwareResourceDescription_Destroy(GATSoftwareResourceDescription *resource)

This function takes as its first argument a pointer to a GATSoftwareResourceDescription. This points to the GATSoftwareResourceDescription to be destroyed. Upon successful completion this any resources this GATSoftwareResourceDescription maintained will be released.