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Table Of Contents
- vCloud API Programming Guide
- Contents
- vCloud API Programming Guide
- About the VMware vCloud API
- Hello vCloud: A Simplified RESTful Workflow
- Exploring a Cloud
- Summary of vCloud API Browsing Requests
- Retrieve the Login URL and List of Supported API Versions
- Create a Login Session Using the Integrated Identity Provider
- Retrieve a List of Organizations Accessible to You
- Retrieve an Administrative View of a Cloud
- Retrieve a List of vSphere Platform Operations and Objects for a Cloud
- Provisioning an Organization
- Summary of vCloud API Provisioning Requests
- Upload an OVF Package to Create a vApp Template
- Download a vApp Template as OVF
- Upload a Media Image
- Copying and Moving with the vCloud API
- Capturing and Importing vApps
- Cataloging vApp Templates and Media Images
- Creating and Using Independent Disks
- View or Change the Owner of an Object
- Deploying and Operating vApps
- Summary of vCloud API vApp and Virtual Machine Operations Requests
- Create a vApp From a Template
- Compose a vApp From Existing Virtual Machines
- Recompose a vApp to Add or Remove Virtual Machines
- Provide User Input Requested by a Virtual Machine
- Attach or Detach an Independent Disk
- Creating and Using vApp Snapshots
- Operate a vApp
- Configuring vApps and Virtual Machines
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a vApp
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a Virtual Machine
- Update Multiple Sections of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Update a Modifiable Section
- Update a vApp Network Configuration
- Update the NetworkConnectionSection of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the CPU Configuration of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the GuestCustomizationSection of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify ProductSection Elements
- Retrieve or Modify Groups of Related Sections in a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the Hard Disk Configuration of a Virtual Machine
- Update the Storage Profile for a Virtual Machine
- Creating and Managing Organizations
- Summary of Administrative Requests
- Administrator Credentials and Privileges
- Organization Administration
- vDC Administration
- Network Administration
- Catalog Administration
- User and Group Administration
- Working With Roles and Rights
- Controlling Access to vApps and Catalogs
- Managing and Monitoring a Cloud
- Summary of vSphere Platform Extension Requests
- Retrieve or Update System Settings
- Attach a vCenter Server
- Finding Available vCenter Resources
- Create a Provider vDC
- Create an External Network
- Create a Network Pool
- Import a Virtual Machine from vCenter
- Relocate a Virtual Machine to a Different Datastore
- Truststore and Keytab Maintenance
- Retrieve the vSphere URL of an Object
- Working With Object Metadata
- Using the Query Service
- Configuring and Using Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- vCloud Director Extension Services
- XML Representations in the vCloud API
- Index
View or Change the Owner of an Object
You can view the owner of a VApp, VAppTemplate, Disk, or Media object by making a GET request to the object's
owner link. If you have adequate rights, you can change the owner of a Disk or VApp object, but not that of a
VAppTemplate or Media object. An administrator can view or change the owner of any object.
The initial owner of a VApp, VAppTemplate, Catalog, Disk, or Media object is the user who created it. Ownership
is expressed in an Owner element that the object representation contains. This element includes a User element
that references the owner. Object-specific rights to change ownership are included in several predefined roles.
See “Predefined Roles and Their Rights,” on page 187.
Prerequisites
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To change the owner of a Disk or VApp object, you must be an organization administrator or system
administrator, or a user whose role includes the right to change the owner of these objects.
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To change the owner of a Catalog object, you must be an organization administrator or the system
administrator.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the Owner element from the object.
This element includes a reference to the current owner and an edit URL you can use to change the owner.
This request retrieves the owner of a vApp.
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vapp-7/owner
2 Modify the Owner element to specify a different User.
The user must be a member of the organization that contains the object.
NOTE You cannot modify the Owner of a Media or VAppTemplate object.
3 To change the owner, make a PUT request to the Owner element's rel="edit" URL and supply an Owner
element in the request body.
The User element in the Owner element references the new owner. See “Example: Change the Owner of a
vApp,” on page 79.
Example: Change the Owner of a vApp
Request:
PUT https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vapp-7/owner
Content-type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.owner+xml
...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Owner
xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5">
<User
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/user/120" />
</Owner>
Response:
204 No Content
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