get all Vapp Templates in catalog

[mlawson]

using the .net sdk...

How do you get all VappTemplates in a specific catalog?

I am able to successfully retrieve them all using vdc.GetVappTemplateRefs() but that doesn't let you specify or filter on a catalog.

is there a method to retrieve template refs by catalog or is there a way to filter the list i get using vdc.getVappTemplateRefs() ?

thanks in advance.

[rkamal]

Hi,

You can use the query service and filter the results.

Using the VappTemplate query you can filter the results based on the catalog name. Below is an API & Java SDK example. You can easily convert the java sample to C#.

REST API:

     Ex: https://vcloud/api/query?type=adminVAppTemplate&filter=(catalogName==mycatalog)&format=records

Java SDK:

      QueryParams<QueryAdminVAppTemplateField> queryParams = new QueryParams<QueryAdminVAppTemplateField>();

      queryParams.setFilter(new Filter(new Expression(QueryAdminVAppTemplateField.CATALOGNAME, "mycatalog", ExpressionType.EQUALS)));

      RecordResult<QueryResultAdminVAppTemplateRecordType> vappTemplateResult = client.getQueryService().queryRecords(

                                                                                                                                     QueryRecordType.ADMINVAPPTEMPLATE, queryParams);

      for (QueryResultAdminVAppTemplateRecordType vappTemplateRecord : vappTemplateResult.getRecords()) {

         System.out.println(vappTemplateRecord.getName());

      }

Regards,

Rajesh Kamal.

[mlawson]

thanks for your help... for anyone looking to do this with the c# SDK here's my code:

QueryParams<QueryVAppTemplateField> queryParams = new QueryParams<QueryVAppTemplateField>();

queryParams.Filter = new Filter(new Expression(QueryAdminVAppTemplateField.CATALOGNAME, "myCatalog", ExpressionType.EQUALS));

RecordResult<QueryResultVAppTemplateRecordType> vappTemplateResult = client.GetQueryService().QueryRecords<QueryVAppTemplateField, QueryResultVAppTemplateRecordType>(QueryRecordType.VAPPTEMPLATE, queryParams);

foreach (QueryResultVAppTemplateRecordType record in vappTemplateResult.GetRecords())

{

    // do stuff...

}