Hi,
I have a written a little function that I call to do non-traversal property retrieval. Its in a class, the class constructor I pass in in VimService and ServiceContent references which are then stroed locally (_svc, _sic).
Hope this helps you out...
V.
Called as follows - e.g. in this case getting summary info from a ClusterComputeResource
// my class containing function below
Attribute attrib = new Attribute(_service, _sic);
// the attribute I want back
string[] attributes = { "summary" };
// the call returning array of dynamic properties
DynamicProperty[] dProps = attrib.Get(mObjCluster, "ClusterComputeResource", attributes);
// casting the return value to the type of property we asked for.
if (dProps != null)
{
ComputeResourceSummary res = (ComputeResourceSummary)dProps[0].val;
//
// Get list of attributes from known object
// Does not include traversal spec
// Pass in mObj :: Managed Object Reference
// type :: String with type of object mObj is, e.g. "Datacenter"
// attribs :: String array of attributes to fetch
// Returns Dymamic Property array. Cast to expected object type in calling function
//
public DynamicProperty[] Get(ManagedObjectReference mObj, string type, string[] attribs)
{
try
{
ObjectSpec oSpec = new ObjectSpec();
oSpec.obj = mObj;
oSpec.skip = false;
PropertySpec pSpec = new PropertySpec();
pSpec.type = type;
pSpec.all = false;
pSpec.pathSet = attribs;
PropertyFilterSpec pfSpec = new PropertyFilterSpec();
pfSpec.propSet = new PropertySpec[] { pSpec };
pfSpec.objectSet = new ObjectSpec[] ;
ObjectContent[] ocColl = this._svc.RetrieveProperties(
this._sic.propertyCollector, new PropertyFilterSpec[] );
if (ocColl != null)
{
// found the property looking for
DynamicProperty[] dProps = ocColl[0].propSet;
return dProps;
}
return null;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Attribute.Get FAILED::" + e.Message);
return null;
}
}
