Who thinks they might be able to point me in the right direction?

[sbeaver]

Long story short, I am working on recreating and enhancing my blueprint as an Advanced Service utilizing the request a catalog item workflow.  I have been able to recreate and enhance most of the blueprint but I am struggling with finding a way to reproduce one specific area.  On the storage tab of a blueprint, you have the option to click a link to add more storage.  I am going to assume some kind of function.  In my first attempt I have a check box that when checked will present 3 other windows to get the answer to size, drive letter and label. So I am thinking I can might be able to use the link property but this is where i could use some input.  I guess I could copy and past and keep hidden but that just does not sound that efficient

Everybody understand what I am really looking to do and have anything to share with the class?

Cheers

Steve. 

[SeanKohler]

Oh... and I will add that we just use the variable as an input.  (e.g. just put __asd_requestedBy as an input variable)

On run, it gets assigned auto-magically without the need for a custom action.  Then it can be used as a local variable handoff in scripts, called workflows, actions, etc.

[Speed_Racer12]

I have 6.1.0 for both as well.  I tested some more requests last night.  I have never been able to get the catalog item request form for my windows catalog item, so maybe there is come incompatibility.  However, when I tried the Linux catalog item, I was able to retrieve the expected inputs.  However, I received the unhelpful error that is attached.  It would be nice if they just pointed out what the problem is. ;-)Thanks for your response.

Steve

[Speed_Racer12]

Good idea.  I wil give that a shot with my working API script.

Thanks,

Steve

[sbeaver]

You are using decimal where you should be using interger.  Check line 13

[Speed_Racer12]

um, yea.  The 13th input on the list is lease which I have set as integer as documented.  I even tried just assigning a number.

[sbeaver]

Not sure it is 13th input but rather line 13 of the code.  I know I had to play with it to get it to work.  Here is a copy of mine that is working for me.

//Taking properties and resubmitting request

var mem = (mem * 1024)

properties = new Properties();

properties.put("provider-owner.id", owner);

properties.put("provider-manage.level", manage);

properties.put("provider-SLA", SLA);

properties.put("provider-cluster.size", offering);

properties.put("provider-blueprintId", blueprintId);

properties.put("provider-provisioningGroupId", provisioningGroupId);

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.CPU.Count", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(cpus).getValue());

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Memory.Size", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(mem).getValue());

properties.put("provider-Cafe.Shim.VirtualMachine.TotalStorageSize", new vCACCAFEDecimalLiteral(TotalStorageSize).getValue());

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.LeaseDays", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(leaseDays).getValue());

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk0.IsClone", isClone ? "true" : "false");

properties.put("provider-DataCenter", location);

properties.put("provider-Business.Segment", segment);

properties.put("provider-business.unit",BusUnit);

properties.put("provider-operating.system.selection", osVersion);

properties.put("provider-Server.Function", func);

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Network.Environment", NetEnv);

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Network0.DnsSuffix", DNSDomain);

properties.put("provider-cost.center", CostCenter);

properties.put("provider-tech.contact", TechContact);

properties.put("provider-__reservationPolicyID", reservationId);

if (addStorage === true){

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.Name","Hard disk 2");

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.Size", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(drive1Size).getValue());

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.Letter", drive1Letter);

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.IsFixed", "False");

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.Label", drive1Label);

  if (addStorage2 === true){

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk2.Name","Hard disk 3");

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk2.Size", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(drive2Size).getValue());

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk2.Letter", drive2Letter);

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk2.IsFixed", "False");

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.Label", drive2Label);

  if (addStorage3 === true){

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk3.Name","Hard disk 4");

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk3.Size", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(drive3Size).getValue());

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk3.Letter", drive3Letter);

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk3.IsFixed", "False");

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.Label", drive3Label);

  if (addStorage4 === true){

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk4.Name","Hard disk 5");

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk4.Size", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(drive4Size).getValue());

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk4.Letter", drive4Letter);

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk4.IsFixed", "False");

  properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Disk1.Label", drive4Label);

  }

   }

  }

}

[Speed_Racer12]

Thanks.  I will do some comparisons and see if I can work it out.

[Speed_Racer12]

I thought I would update this thread on what happened with 6.2.  After the upgrade, the "request a catalog item" did not work at all.  I had the issue fixed with a tech preview plug-in.

Technical Preview Version of VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for vCloud Automation Center 6.2.0

Once this was installed, I can now request catalog items.  However, I get this ugly error even though I check all the types thoroughly.

[Rest Composite Exception]:  ( [Rest Error]: {Status code: 400}, {Error code: 20117} , {Error Source: null}, {Error Msg: The data specified within the request is invalid.}, {System Msg: The data specified within the request is invalid.} )  ( [Rest Error]: {Status code: 400}, {Error code: 50505} , {Error Source: null}, {Error Msg: System exception.}, {System Msg: com.vmware.vcac.platform.content.literals.DecimalLiteral cannot be cast to com.vmware.vcac.platform.content.literals.IntegerLiteral} ) (Dynamic Script Module name : requestCatalogItem#14)

Also, this is a distributed deployment with an external vRO appliance obtained from support.

Anybody able to get this workflow to work with 6.2?

[sbeaver]

I have it working and really well.  Looking at the error message you posted, one thing really jumps out at me.  "DecimalLiteral cannot be cast to com.vmware.vcac.platform.content.literals.IntegerLiteral"    That tells me you are Decimal is the code where you need Integer.  Not sure which one so to test change one at a time til you find it

[Speed_Racer12]

The properties below are the only ones that could kick off this error.  They are all defined as numbers.  Maybe something is wrong here?  Otherwise, I don't know where to look.

properties.put("provider-Cafe.Shim.VirtualMachine.NumberOfInstances", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(numberOfInstances).getValue());

properties.put("provider-Cafe.Shim.VirtualMachine.TotalStorageSize", new vCACCAFEDecimalLiteral(totalStorageSize).getValue());

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.CPU.Count", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(cpuCount).getValue());

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.LeaseDays", new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(leaseDays).getValue());

properties.put("provider-VirtualMachine.Memory.Size",  new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(memorySize).getValue());

[Speed_Racer12]

Did you have this issue?  Technical Preview Version of VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for vCloud Automation Center 6.2.0

I had to deploy this to get it work at all.  This is now with 6.2, the 6.0 vro appliance and this new unreleased plug-in.

However at least I can retrieve the form and request an item which did not work for me at all with a windows catalog item on 6.1.

It seems to work until I get the type mismatch error.  This is testing a very basic workflow just trying to request the catalog item.

[sbeaver]

Yes using the new plugin for the same reasons you discovered.  I checked your code and it matches mine so have you confirmed that the vCO property types match?

[Speed_Racer12]

Yes, a few times.  These are all numbers.

Every other property is a string.

[sbeaver]

ok in my vCO workflow

Number if instances = number

lease days = number

cpu = string

mem = string

disk size = number

total storage = number

[pizzle85]

For anyone else who comes across this post the code to input an integer into an ASD service blueprint that worked for me was:

new vCACCAFEIntegerLiteral(variable);

The variable can be a string or number type.

This wasn't apparent to me reading the original posts.