findAllforType filter?

[UofS]

I am using the Server.findAllForType("vCloud:VM") function and able to return all VMs but its not exactly what I need.

I was hoping there was a more efficient way to get the vm object for a single VM based on one of the parameters of the VM (the artificialId field).

maybe something like this:

Server.findAllForType("vCloud:VM:artificalid=sfw@System@https://cloud.example.com/api/Vapp/vm-234234-234-23423-423-4234-23") ?

or based on href url?

otherwise I end up having to loop through and search this all the time and likely place unecessary stress on the system.

Dion

[Burke-]

Try using xpath as discussed here:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1892584#1892591

instead of name, use artificialId -- see if that works I haven't tried but think this may be the way to go..

[UofS]

It doesnt seem to work as well as I would expect.  I have tried variations like this:

var vms = Server.findAllForType("vCloud:VM","xpath:name='VM-RHEL6'");

And get no items returned (and I know there are many VMs returned with the name= to this)

I also tried the variations we discussed:

var vmName = 'sfw@System@https://cloud.boo.ca/api/vApp/vm-6e4e0da2-524b-44fd-9dc4-343706eb7ff9';
var vms = Server.findAllForType("VC:VirtualMachine","xpath:artificialId='"+vmName+"'");

which also didnt return anything.

I also tried

var vmName = 'https://cloud.boo.ca/api/vApp/vm-6e4e0da2-524b-44fd-9dc4-343706eb7ff9';
var vms = Server.findAllForType("VC:VirtualMachine","xpath:href='"+vmName+"'");

also no good.

the href and artificialId were all properties available when I did

var vms = Server.findAllForType("vCloud:VM");

for each (var vm in vms) {

    for(var propertyName in vm) {
        try {
            System.log(  " vm var: " + propertyName + " = " + vm[propertyName] );
        } catch( e ) {

        }

    } 

Dion