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Table Of Contents
- Programming Guide
- Contents
- vRealize Automation Programming Guide
- Updated Information
- Overview of the vRealize Automation REST API
- REST API Authentication
- REST API Use Cases
- Create a Tenant
- Syntax for Displaying Your Current Tenants
- Syntax for Requesting a New Tenant
- Syntax for Listing All Tenant Identity Stores
- Syntax for Linking an Identity Store to the Tenant
- Syntax for Searching LDAP or Active Directory for a User
- Syntax for Assigning a User to a Role
- Syntax for Displaying all Roles Assigned to a User
- Requesting a Machine By Type
- Request a Machine
- Syntax for Listing Shared and Private Catalog Items
- Syntax for Finding a Catalog Item by Name
- Syntax for Locating the Blueprint Values Required to Construct a Machine Request
- Syntax for Constructing a JSON File For a Machine Request
- Syntax for Requesting a Machine
- Syntax for Viewing All of Your Requests
- Syntax for Finding a Resource by its Request ID
- Syntax for Viewing the Details of a Machine Request
- Request a vCloud Air Machine
- Request an Amazon Machine
- Request a Machine
- Approve a Machine Request
- List Provisioned Resources
- Reprovision a Machine Resource
- Working with Reservations
- Create a Reservation
- Display a List of Supported Reservation Types
- Displaying a Schema Definition for a Reservation
- Get the Business Group ID for a Reservation
- Get a Compute Resource for the Reservation
- Getting a Resources Schema by Reservation Type
- Creating a Reservation By Type
- Verify a Reservation and Get Reservation Details
- Display a List of Reservations
- Update a Reservation
- Delete a Reservation
- Create a Reservation
- Working with Reservation Policies
- Working with Key Pairs
- Working with Network Profiles
- Create a Tenant
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
- Related Tools and Documentation
Parameter Description
dependencyValues JSON string that defines the dependency values
entries key -- Specifies the field ID of dependent field. For this example, enter
computeResource.
value -- Specifies the value of the dependent field. For this example, copy and paste
the vCloud HTTP response obtained by using the Get Compute Resource task. See
Get Resources Schema for a vCloud Reservation Syntax.
Output
The command output contains property names and values based on the command input parameters.
Property Description
values An array of data rows, each of which represents one of the reservation storage objects returned
in a pageable list. Each reservation storage object contains an underlyingValue and label
entry.
underlyingValue JSON string representing one permissible value for a field:
n
type -- data type of entityRef, complexRef, or primary
n
component ID -- componentID
n
classId -- schema class ID of current data type
n
id -- unique reservation storage ID
n
label --reservation storage label
label Specifies the reservation storage label. This value matches the underlyingValue value.
Example: curl Command
curl --insecure -H "Accept:application/json"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$host/reservation-service/api/data-
service/schema/Infrastructure.Reservation.Cloud.vCloud/default/reservationStorages/values -d “
Example: JSON Output
The following JSON output is returned based on the command input.
Copy the output from an underlyingValue section into an XML editor and use it as input to create or
update a reservation.
{
"values": [
{
"underlyingValue": {
"type": "complex",
"componentTypeId": "com.mycompany.csp.iaas.blueprint.service",
"componentId": null,
"classId": "Infrastructure.Reservation.Storage",
"typeFilter": null,
"values": {
"entries": [
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