Browse a Datastore with empty folders?

[fberridi]

Hi every one, this is my problem: I need to browse a datastore and discover all the empty folders, the problem is that browser.searchDatastoreSubFolders_Task(path, hdbss) seems to be ignoring empty folders even using FolderFileQuery, maybe this is not the right browsing method for my particular problem? any ideas?

Thank you a lot, any suggestion is very welcome.

[lamw]

That is the correct method to use, I've not specifically tried to search for "empty folders", but you should get a return of all folders under a given path. What language are you implementing this search in? Can you provide the code snippet that you're currently using to search for empty folders?

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[fberridi]

Thank you a lot for your quick answer!,

maybe its worth to mention that I'm using VI Java

Alright the code would be like this:

  ...
  HostDatastoreBrowser browser = datastore.getBrowser();
  HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec hdbss = new HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec();
  hdbss.setSearchCaseInsensitive(false);
  hdbss.setSortFoldersFirst(true);
  hdbss.setQuery(new FileQuery [] {new FolderFileQuery()});

  Task task = browser.searchDatastoreSubFolders_Task("[esx_local_storage]", hdbss);
  task.waitForTask();
  object = task.getTaskInfo().getResult();
  
  ArrayOfHostDatastoreBrowserSearchResults result = (ArrayOfHostDatastoreBrowserSearchResults) object;
  HostDatastoreBrowserSearchResults [] resultMors = result.getHostDatastoreBrowserSearchResults();

  System.out.println("Browsing [esx_local_storage]...");

  for (HostDatastoreBrowserSearchResults results : resultMors)
  {
      System.out.println("folder path:  " + results.getFolderPath());
  }
  ...

The folder structure in that specific datastore is like this

[esx_local_storage]
|-test_root_folder
   |- test_folder
      |-empty_subfolder
   |- empty_folder

And when I run the code this is the result

: Browsing [esx_local_storage] ...
: folder path: [esx_local_storage] 
: folder path: [esx_local_storage] test_root_folder
: folder path: [esx_local_storage] test_root_folder/test_folder

So to me this looks like this is just ignoring the empty folders, this kind of make sense (to me), but the question is how do I get my empty folders :S

[fberridi]

OK if found the Answer (sort of)

I noticed that if I use ...

 ...
  FileQueryFlags fqf = new FileQueryFlags();
  fqf.setFileType(true);
  hdbss.setDetails(fqf);
 ...

... it will send back the empty folders... the problem is this is working for API version 2.5 but for 4.0 All I'm getting is InvalidRequest exception , any ideas?