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Retrieve Objects from the Policy Store

To retrieve an object from the policy store

1. Create an object of the relevant class to store the returned properties. For example, the following code creates an agent object:

   SmAgent myAgent = new SmAgent();
   

2. Call the appropriate get... function for the object you just created—for example, getAgent() for an agent object, or getDomain() for a domain object—and pass in the object you just created. For example, if you’re retrieving an agent named myAgent:

   result = myPolicyApi.getAgent ("myAgent", myAgent);
   

If the method succeeds, it populates myAgent with the properties of the specified agent object. (If a get... method retrieves a list, the list is written to a vector.) If no matching objects are found, the properties of the receiving object retain their initial values.