VcFolder walking from Datacenter

[damascushill]

The code below will allow me to walk straight down a path to the bottom of a set of folders Datacenter->Folder Level1->Folder Level2.

I need to walk sideways... I want to look at the next folder at Level1 in the same Datacenter.  The vmFolder given at the datacenter is on an Array type, and there is no "link-list" type chain to follow.

var datacenter_vcFolder = datacenter.vmFolder;

System.log("vmFolder:"+datacenter_vcFolder);

for (var i in datacenter_vcFolder) {

  System.log("Name["+i+"]:"+datacenter_vcFolder[i].name);

  var I_childType = datacenter_vcFolder[i].childType;

  var I_childEntity = datacenter_vcFolder[i].childEntity;

  for (var j in I_childType){

  System.log("childType["+j+"]:"+I_childType[j]);

  System.log("childEntity["+j+"]:"+I_childEntity[j]);

  }

}

[Burke- · Accepted solution]

For me, that code fails right away with an invalid iterator for you first for loop.. according to the API Explorer, the datacenter.vmFolder property returns a Single "VcFolder" object, not an array of anything.

Once you have the VcFolder object, the childType and childEntity properties are each returned as Arrays - so that is where you would need to do your loop.

For example:

var dcFolder = datacenter.vmFolder; // Returns a vcFolder object

System.log("dcFolder:"+dcFolder);
var children = dcFolder.childEntity;
for each (child in children){
    System.log("Child: "+child.name+" :: "+System.getObjectType(child));
}

Generates The following for one of my labs:

[2014-03-17 16:52:41.478] [I] dcFolder:DynamicWrapper (Instance) : [VcFolder]-[class com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.model.VimFolder] -- VALUE : Folder<group-v3>
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.393] [I] Child: vCAC51 :: VC:VirtualMachine
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.394] [I] Child: Zimbra8 :: VC:VirtualMachine
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.394] [I] Child: vPostgres-9.2.4 :: VC:VirtualMachine
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.395] [I] Child: Discovered virtual machine :: VC:VmFolder
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.396] [I] Child: Single Site Base vPod 5.5 GA-v2 :: VC:VirtualApp
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.396] [I] Child: freenas1 :: VC:VirtualMachine
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.396] [I] Child: win7Dev :: VC:VirtualMachine
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.397] [I] Child: Dev :: VC:VmFolder
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.397] [I] Child: loginsight.vcoteam.lab :: VC:VirtualMachine
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.398] [I] Child: vCO51GA :: VC:VirtualMachine
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.398] [I] Child: Base55pod :: VC:VmFolder
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.399] [I] Child: uslab-vcd :: VC:VmFolder
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.399] [I] Child: Prod :: VC:VmFolder
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.403] [I] Child: Templates :: VC:VmFolder
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.403] [I] Child: Test :: VC:VmFolder
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.404] [I] Child: JoomlaServer :: VC:VirtualMachine
[2014-03-17 16:52:43.404] [I] Child: vCD-512 :: VC:VirtualMachine

So you could filter on Object Type or instance of and drill down or sideways as needed.