topic Re: Deleting a Folder with Perl SDK in vSphere SDK for Perl Discussions

Deleting a Folder with Perl SDK

marck004 — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 22:32:20 GMT

I am looking for assistance deleting a folder with the Perl SDK. I know the user has privileges. I think I am making calls to DeleteDatastoreFile_Task incorrectly.

Could someone please point me to an example of using DeleteDatastoreFile_Task or Destroy_Task? ...or any other way of deleting a folder?

I attempted having the folder mo_ref as del_folderView and calling:

my del_result = del_folderView->DeleteDatastoreFile_Task( name => $del_folderName);

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Re: Deleting a Folder with Perl SDK

MR-Z — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 23:47:20 GMT

Try this:

my $folder = Vim::get_view(mo_ref=> $vm->parent);

unless ($folder->childEntity) {

print "** Cleaning up the vm container folder.\n";

$folder->Destroy_Task();

}

Re: Deleting a Folder with Perl SDK

MR-Z — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:11:53 GMT

I re-read your question and doubt that my code will help in that regard. It deals with VM container/folder at the VC object level, not a directory on a datastore.