topic How to convert String to vCO Object type? in VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Discussions

How to convert String to vCO Object type?

LuckyT — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:03:34 GMT

Hi All,

Can someone help me how to convert String to vCO Object Type?

For example:

I will pass VM name as string to workflow and then convert that into VC:VirtualMachine object in Scriptable task & then assign to sub workflow (PowerOff VM) as VC:VirtualMachine.

Thanks in advance.

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

OscarDavey — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:10:09 GMT

To Converter Workflows please check this :

VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In Documentation Center

Hope this helped .

Best regards

Your Oscar

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

tschoergez — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:33:12 GMT

Hi,

you have to actually search the inventory for the VM with the given name (be careful, there might be not unique!).

For the you can use VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines() with an xpath filter in a scriptable task,

or the Action com.vmware.library.vc.vm.getAllVMsMatchingRegexp from the library.

Also have a look at these resources:

http://www.vmwarelearning.com/orchestrator

Case insensitive search for VM by name (the examples here actually should solve your problem)

cheers,

Joerg

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

LuckyT — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:23:08 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

Actually, I want to call workflow from Java code and pass Input as VM (VC:VirtualMachine) object, i tried with below code,

SdkObject obj = new SdkObject();

obj.setType("VC:VirtualMachine");

obj.setId("VCIP/vm-744");

context = new ExecutionContextBuilder().addParam("vm",obj).build();

WorkflowExecution execution = executionService.execute(workflow, context);

but it is pass null to VM input parameter in vCO workflow.

So i thought to pass Vm name as string and within workflow script i will convert that into VC:VirtualMachine object type. but i'm not able to do this.

Can anyone help me resolve this issue or on the workaround?

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

Burke- — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:48:09 GMT

LuckyT:

The ID of a Virtual Machine actually looks like this through the SOAP api:

dunes://service.dunes.ch/CustomSDKObject?id='vcenter.yourdomain.lab/vm-744'&dunesName='VC:VirtualMachine'

Try using that format on your line that sets the ID... See if that helps.

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

LuckyT — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:10:00 GMT

Thanks.

I'm using the same format, but using through Java:

obj.setType("VC:VirtualMachine");

obj.setId("VCIP/vm-744");

Can you suggest?

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

babygilr24 — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:06:21 GMT

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Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

iiliev — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:55:18 GMT

Burke - this style of IDs ('dunes://...') is not supported in vCO REST API.

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

Burke- — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:37:57 GMT

I'm not a JAVA developer so I can't help much more My id example was based on the SOAP API.

Hopefully one of our community members more familiar with Java will be able to further assist you.

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

LuckyT — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:38:49 GMT

Can anyone help on this? I'm not able send SDKObject (VM Name) to vCO from my java code.

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

GiulianoBertell — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:39:08 GMT

LuckyT did you ever find the solution for this one? I have the same problem, but calling via POST

Re: How to convert String to vCO Object type?

vm2cloud — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 02:31:28 GMT

I found this guide to work http://www.vzare.com/?p=3560