External IDE

[ggrant94]

Hey guys,

Is there any external JavaScript editor I can use? The built in one just isn't good enough in my opinion. I'm fairly new with JavaScript and like to test snippets of code as I go along. Using the built in editor is cumbersome!

[iiliev]

Hi,

Current workflow designed doesn't support external JS editors (well, unless you have both embedded and external IDE editor opened at the same time and manually do a lot of copy/paste between them, but I suppose you wouldn't want this).

Perhaps in some future vRO version...

[qc4vmware]

It sounds like you probably want the vCO CLI plugin installed.  This gives you a REPL style interaction with vRO which should assist you quite a bit in your development.  Take a look at this Technical Preview of the Command Line Interface for VMware vCenter Orchestrator 7.0.0 and above . 

If this does not address most of what you want to do with testing small snippets of code can you provide an example of what it is you typically test?  I find just using the node command prompt totally adequate for testing out most javascript on the fly.

Paul

[ggrant94]

This isn't working for me but let me post what I have done so far.

1. Installed the plugin on my orchestrator server and given it a reboot. (verified plugin installed correctly)

2. There is a new folder in my workflow library called vCO CLI which contains a workflow called Start Session.

3. I run this and create a session called test, I leave the IP address blank

4. Next I run the vcocli-gui.bat and enter the relevant details and click attach.

5. Then get the following error

What am I missing here?

Thanks

Gordon