Children vApps?

[yskp]

The vCD API has a Vapp.GetChildrenVapps method, that returns a list of vApps that are nested within the current vApp. Presumably, each child vApp can have child vApps of its own, so that one can create a whole hierarchy of vApps within a single vApp.

However, I couldn't find a way to do this from the vCD UI (I'm using vCD 5.1). Is it possible to have a vApp within a vApp?

[IamTHEvilONE · Accepted solution]

No, you cannot nest a vApp object inside of a vApp Object.

Children refers to ones created/related to the vApp queried.

In the vCloud Director UI it's abstracted from view, because it "shouldn't" matter.

[yskp]

Thank you for the answer.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "related"? Are those vApps cloned from the original vApp? Or vApps deployed from a particular template? Something else?

[IamTHEvilONE]

what version of vCloud are you on?  I might have confused the call with something else because GetChildrenVapps might be documented in older manuals, but isn't actually used (response might be null, or invalid).

[yskp]

This seems to exist in both 1.5 and 5.1. I have never actually checked what it returns in 5.1 - we just kept using the same code.

The docs for ComposeVapp imply that vApps that are "composed" into a vApp are added to its list of children. Is this what you meant?

[IamTHEvilONE]

check your PM.

[IamTHEvilONE]

For those that may see this thread, the api call mentioned will always return an empty list of vApps.