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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
id Specifies the unique identifier for the content. This is also used
as a folder name to group similar content artifacts.
name Specifies the name of a given content type provided in localized
message key form.
description Specifies additional information describing the package.
contents Collection of references that form the contents of the package.
Example Curl Command
The following command creates a package named "Demo Package" with a content ID of
9b348c29-88ff-4fa8-b93e-f80bc7c3e723.
$curl --insecure -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer
$token" https://$host/content-management-service/api/packages-d'{"name" : "Demo
Package", "description" : "Package for demo purposes", "contents" :
[ "9b348c29-88ff-4fa8-b93e-f80bc7c3e723" ]}'
Example: JSON Output
The JSON output is a URL for the created package.
Syntax for Listing Packages in the Content Service
You can use the REST API content management service to list the packages within the content service.
Input
You must provide the appropriate request parameters to list packages within the content service.
Name Description Type
page Page Number. Default is 1. Query
limit Number of entries per page. Default is 20. Query
$orderby Multiple comma-separated properties sorted in ascending or
descending order.
Query
$top The number of returned entries from the top of the response (total
number per page in relation to skip).
Query
$skip The number of entries to skip. Query
$filter Boolean expression for whether a particular entry should be
included in the response.
Query
Output
The command output contains property names and values based on the command input parameters.
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