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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
Example Curl Command
$curl --insecure -s -H "Accept: application/zip" -H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$host/content-management-
service/api/packages/54f627bb-2277-48af-9fa0-7d7366b498f3-o package.zip
Example: Example: JSON Output
The export command returns a message that indicates whether or not the package was exported. A
successful export produces a package.zip exported to the specified location. The returned message is
'200 - Successes' with the Package or 404 - 'Not Found' if it does not find a package with
provided ID.
Syntax for Validating a Content Bundle Before Importing
You can use the REST API content management service to validate a content bundle before importing to
a critical system. VMware recommends that you validate all packages before importing them to any
system.
Input
You can use optional request parameters with your query URL to customize the returned content.
Table 4‑18. Package Validation Parameters
Name Description Type
file The name of the package file to be validated query
resolution mode The resolution mode to be used for performing validation when the
same entity exists in the system. Valid values are SKIP,
OVERWRITE. SKIP will not update the existing entity with the new
content while OVERWRITE will update the old entity with the new
data. In case the resolution mode is not explicitly provided the
default mode OVERWRITE will be used for conflict resolution.
query
Output
The package validation response body contains the following parameters.
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