Global view extension and data access manager

[reswaran04]

Hi,

From my understanding, we cannot use Data Access Manager in Global view extension. Reason being, data requests in DAM expects a contextObject to be sent as part of the request whereas global view being a free-form data view will not have any contextObject set in it.

Even the samples doesnt have any global view extension using DAM APIs.

Please can you confirm my understanding.

Thanks

Ravikumar

[laurentsd]

hi Ravikumar,

The DAM API doesn't necessarily requires a vSphere context object, you could make queries on objects from your own server.  Also, you could be keeping references to specific vSphere objects in a global view.  Those are not frequent use cases but it's possible.