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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
- Request a Machine
- Approve a Machine Request
- List Provisioned Resources
- Manage Provisioned Deployments
- 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
- Import and Export Content
- Syntax for Listing Supported Content Types
- Syntax for Listing Available Content
- Syntax for Filtering Content by Content Type
- Syntax for Creating a Package for Export
- Syntax for Listing Packages in the Content Service
- Syntax for Exporting a Package
- Syntax for Validating a Content Bundle Before Importing
- Syntax for Importing a Package
- Understanding Blueprint Schema
- Manage XaaS Content with Import and Export
- Create a Tenant
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
- Related Tools and Documentation
Parameter Description
Links Specifies an array of link objects, each of which contains the
following parts:
n
rel
Specifies the name of the link.
n
Self refers to the object that was returned or requested.
n
First, Previous, Next, and Last refer to
corresponding pages of pageable lists.
n
Specifies the application or service that determines the
other names.
n
href
Specifies the URL that produces the result.
Content
n
id: The unique identifier for the content. This is also used as
a folder name to group similar content artifacts.
n
name: The name of a given content type provided in
localized message key form.
n
description: Additional information describing the content
type.
n
classId: The class identifier associated with a content type.
n
serviceTypeId: The service ID for the given content type.
Metadata Specifies the following paging-related data:
n
Size: Specifies the maximum number of rows per page.
n
totalElement: Specifies the number of rows returned.
n
totalPages: Specifies the total number of pages of data
available.
n
Number: Specifies the current page number.
n
Offset: Specifies the number of rows skipped.
Example Curl Command
The following example command returns a list of supported content types.
$curl --insecure -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer
$token" https://$host/content-management-service/api/provider/contenttypes
Example: JSON Output
The following JSON output is returned based on the command input.
{
"links": [
],
"content": [
{
"@type": "ContentType",
"id": "property-group",
"name": "Property Group",
"description": "Content type corresponding to the property groups.",
"classId": "PropertyGroup",
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