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type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.task+xml"
operation="Backup in progress for virtual machine with id 7b91b053-2b..."
operationName="backupInProgress"
name="task">
<Owner
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.org+xml"
name="Finance"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/org/26"
id="26" />
<User
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml"
name="bob"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/user/39" />
<Progress>10</Progress>
</Task>
Response:
200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.task+xml
...
<Task
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/task/604"
...
operationName="backupInProgress"
... >
...
</Task>
Create a Service-Specific Event
An extension service can request that vCloud Director add an event message to the event stream of an
organization.
The system always creates an event message when a service posts a Task to an organization's tasks list. To
create additional event messages, a service can POST an Event element to an organization's events URL.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to the vCloud API as a system administrator.
Procedure
1 Retrieve the XML representation of the organization in which you want to create the event.
Use a request like this one:
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/org/26
2 Examine the response to locate the Link element that contains the URL for adding events to the
organization's events stream.
This element has a rel attribute value of event:create and a type attribute value of
application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.event+xml, as the following example shows:
<Link
rel="event:create"
type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.event"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/org/26/events" />
3 Create an Event element that specifies the details of the task.
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