About ManagementModelEntities.svc

[Jalps]

I have some queries related to svc files of VMware, which are used for vCAC 6.0.

There are : ManagementModelEntities.svc and MetaModel.svc

What is the purpose of these svc files?

How can we get these files?

Is it a part of vCAC installation?

Need suggestion/help for these queries.

Thanks,

Jalpesh

[d-fens]

These svc files are the ODATA REST service endpoints of the IaaS portion of vCAC. They have essentially the same purpose as in vCAC 5.2. If you HTTP GET them with ManagementModelentities.svc/$metadata you get a description of all properties and methods of the service. For a description of ODATA REST you can have a look at http://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-version-3-0/url-conventions/ . For a brief introduction about the vCAC models you can also have a look at these posts:

1. http://d-fens.ch/2013/10/10/investigating-the-vcac-5-2-mgmtcontext/

2. http://d-fens.ch/2014/02/16/investigating-vcac-5-2-models/

Regards, Ronald

[admin]

+1 to ronald

this is WCF data services, they're not files and actually service endpoints, some cool stuff about exploring the services with LINQPad.

WCF Data Services 4.5

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/showarticle.aspx?ID=882