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Access the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In API

Orchestrator provides an API Explorer to allow you to search the vCloud Automation Center plug-in API

and see the documentation for JavaScript objects that you can use in scripted elements.

For updated vCloud Automation Center API documentation, see

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcac-pubs.html.

Procedure

1 Log in to the Orchestrator client as an administrator.

2 Select Tools > API Explorer.

3 Double-click the vCAC module in the left pane to expand the hierarchical list of

vCloud Automation Center plug-in API objects.

What to do next

You can copy code from API elements and paste it into scripting boxes. For more information about API

scripting, see Developing with VMware vCenter Orchestrator.

Examples of Scripts for Common vCloud Automation Center Tasks

You can cut, paste, and edit the JavaScript examples to write scripts for common vCloud Automation Center

tasks.

For more information about scripting in vCenter Orchestrator, see Developing with VMware vCenter

Orchestrator.

Example: Create a vCloud Automation Center Approval Policy

This example script performs the following actions:

1 Gets the approval policy type.

2 Sets the user and group whose approval is required.

3 Sets the approval levels.

4 Defines the pre-provisioning approval phase.

5 Defines the post-provisioning approval phase.

6 Defines the approval policy specifications such as name, description, and type.

7 Creates the approval policy.

8 Publishes the approval policy. Once an approval policy is published, it becomes read-only.

Table 3‑12. Input Variables

Variable Type

host

vCACCAFE:VCACHost

// Get the type of approval policy by ID

var typeService = host.createApprovalClient().getApprovalApprovalPolicyTypeService();

var type = typeService.getApprovalPolicyType("com.vmware.cafe.catalog.request");

// Set the user and group required to complete the approval

var user = new vCACCAFEApprovalPrincipal();

user.setValue("user@domain.com");

Using the vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for vCloud Automation Center 6.0.1

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