Aug 21, 2008 3:43 PM bruce.downs  says:

Great guide. Do you have or know of a version for DotNet? I'm looking for code to 1) login with the given SessionId and 2) MorUtil.createExactManagedEntity.

Aug 21, 2008 4:14 PM bruce.downs  says: in response to: Steve Jin

The relevant VIJ code that needs porting is in the ServiceInstance constructor.

public ServiceInstance(URL url, String sessionStr, boolean ignoreCert)
throws ServiceException, RemoteException

You need to set the HEADER_COOKIE property to the following:
vmware_soap_session="GUID"

What I'm unsure of is which object's property is set and what is apache's string value for HEADER_COOKIE.

• from ServiceInstance.java ****

// sessionStr format: "vmware_soap_session=\"B3240D15-34DF-4BB8-B902-A844FDF42E85\""
public ServiceInstance(URL url, String sessionStr, boolean ignoreCert)
throws ServiceException, RemoteException
{
if(url == null || sessionStr ==null)
{
throw new NullPointerException("None of url, session string can be null.");
}

if(ignoreCert==true)
{
this.ignoreCertificate();
}

setMOR(SERVICE_INSTANCE_MOR);

VimServiceLocator serviceLocator = new VimServiceLocator();
serviceLocator.setMaintainSession(true);

VimPortType vimService = serviceLocator.getVimPort(url);
((org.apache.axis.client.Stub)vimService).setTimeout(1200000); //optional
((VimBindingStub) vimService).setMaintainSession(true);

VimBindingStub vimStub = (VimBindingStub) vimService;
vimStub._setProperty(org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPConstants.HEADER_COOKIE, sessionStr );

serviceContent = vimService.retrieveServiceContent(SERVICE_INSTANCE_MOR);
setServerConnection(new ServerConnection(url, vimService, this));
UserSession userSession = (UserSession) getSessionManager().getCurrentProperty("currentSession");
getServerConnection().setUserSession(userSession);
}

Aug 21, 2008 4:32 PM akutz  says:

Check out the VI Toolkit for .NET at http://vitfordotnet.sourceforge.net/

Aug 22, 2008 9:36 AM Steve Jin   says: in response to: bruce.downs

Thanks a lot Bruce. I filed a bug for you:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1073396&aid=2067804&group_id=228007

In the future, you can use this following link to file more bugs and feature requests:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=228007

Aug 22, 2008 11:36 AM bruce.downs  says: in response to: Steve Jin

I logged this and another bug for vitfordotnet on sourgeforge.

The other bug is relevant to the VI Client plugin as logging in via plainTextCookie does not work. I need this function in order to login with the VI client's sessionId.

As you see in my write up, I fixed the problem temporarily by creating the cookie without a path and calling CookieContainer.Add() with a new Uri of the service Url.

i.e.
UserSession Login( Cookie cookie )
{
ServiceInstance.Service.CookieContainer.Add( new Uri( ServiceInstance.Service.Url ), cookie );
return ( CurrentSession );
}

Login( string plainTextCookie )
{
var c = new Cookie("vmware_soap_session", plainTextCookie);
return Login(c);
}

Jul 16, 2009 5:28 AM acnsys  says: in response to: Steve Jin

Please help, i am trying my best to get it work but each time i deploy the war project i get:
HTTP Status 404 - /ViClientWebApp/TestServlet

---

type Status report
message /ViClientWebApp/TestServlet
description The requested resource (/ViClientWebApp/TestServlet) is not available

I see the tab in the VICLient and i have cut and paste your code (Web.xml and TestServlet.java) from the PDF but it wont work...

I also get that error with XML Spy:
Tomcat 6.0\webapps\ViClientWebApp\WEB-INF\Web.xml is not valid.
The element declaration was not found for root element <Web-app>.
Error location: Web-app
Details
cvc-elt.1: The element declaration was not found for root element <Web-app>.

The web.xml i used is the one you provide in the tuto:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">
<display-name>VI Client Plugin Demo App</display-name>
<description> VI Client Plugin Demo App with Tomcat and VI Java
API</description>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>TestServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/TestServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</Web-app>

I get this warning too in Eclipse:
Description Resource Path Location Type
The serializable class TestServlet does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long TestServlet.java /ViClientWebApp/WEB-INF/src line 16 Java Problem

Jul 29, 2009 12:30 PM gilsharon  says:

Can you please add the xml file to use when registering this extension?
Thanks!