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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
Table 4‑19. Import and Export Response Body Parameters
Parameter Description
contentImportStatus Over all status of the import/validation operation, one failure in import/validation result
guarantees failed status. Values are as follows:
n
Success - Denotes the successful import or validation status at a particular component or
package level.
n
Failed - Denotes an import or validation failure at a particular component package level.
n
Warning - Denotes a scenario that warrants a system level warning. Alerts the user about a
possible error condition that the proposed action may create.
contentImportResults Set of collected content import/validation results populated by the provider. The Content import
operation result collection is the set of content that passed or failed. If failed the errors are
populated in ContentImportError. Properties are as follows:
n
contentId - (string) Unique content ID within the file system.
n
contentName - (anyType) Name of the content being imported.
n
contentTypeId - (string) The ID for the content type being exported. This matches the folder
structure in the exported zip.
n
contentImportStatus - Track the failed or succeeded status of an entity.
n
messages - Information returned by the provider.
n
contentImportErrors - Set of errors returned by the provider.
Example Curl Command
This example uses the 'DukesBankApp.zip' - which is out-of-the-box content provided on the
vRealize Automation virtual appliance. You can copy the file from /usr/lib/vcac/tools/initial-
config/sample-oob-content/DukesBankApp.zip using WinSCP (Windows) or scp (Mac).
$curl --insecure -s -H" Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -H "Authorization: Bearer
$token" https://$host/content-management-service/api/packages/validate -F
"file=@DukesBankApp.zip"
Example: JSON Output
The validation output displays the validation status of each content item within the bundle.
{
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportResults": [
{
"contentId": "Apache_LB",
"contentName": "Apache_LB",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "MySql",
"contentName": "MySql",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
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