Hello everyone. I'm back with an API error message I cannot decipher. At first I thought I was maybe getting the wrong API version but I checked vimServiceVersions.xml and it is correct (namespace urn:vim25 has version 5.5)
I feel like I've tried everything under the sun and I have no idea what the heck is going wrong. RetrieveProperties method works against type VirtualMachine but not DistributedVirtualPortgroup.
Another hypothesis is that I'm just using the Login method instead of LoginByToken, but I'm not sure that has anything to do with it.
Outgoing request:
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<RetrieveProperties xmlns="urn:vim25">
<_this type="PropertyCollector">propertyCollector</_this>
<specSet>
<propSet>
<type>DistributedVirtualPortgroup</type>
<all>true</all>
</propSet>
<objectSet>
<obj type="DistributedVirtualPortgroup">dvportgroup-72</obj>
</objectSet>
</specSet>
</RetrieveProperties>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Error response:
The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<soapenv:Fault><faultcode>ServerFaultCode</faultcode><faultstring>
Error processing attribute "type" with value "DistributedVirtualPortgroup"
while parsing MoRef for ManagedObject of type vmodl.ManagedObject
at line 1, column 369
while parsing property "obj" of static type ManagedObject
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.ObjectSpec
at line 1, column 358
while parsing property "objectSet" of static type ArrayOfObjectSpec
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.FilterSpec
at line 1, column 275
while parsing call information for method RetrieveProperties
at line 1, column 180
while parsing SOAP body
at line 1, column 169
while parsing SOAP envelope
at line 1, column 0
while parsing HTTP request for method retrieveContents
on object of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector
at line 1, column 0</faultstring><detail><InvalidRequestFault xmlns="urn:vim25" xsi:type="InvalidRequest"></InvalidRequestFault></detail></soapenv:Fault>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
