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Table Of Contents
- Programming Guide
- Contents
- vRealize Automation Programming Guide
- 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
- Get a List of Available IP Ranges for an IPAM Provider
- 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
- Related Tools and Documentation
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
- Index
Example: JSON Output
The following example lists all packages within the content service.
{
"links": [
],
"content": [
{
"@type": "Package",
"createdDate": "2015-08-04T22:22:53.490Z",
"lastUpdated": "2015-08-04T22:22:53.490Z",
"version": 0,
"id": "54f627bb-2277-48af-9fa0-7d7366b498f3",
"name": "Demo Package",
"description": "Package for demo purposes",
"contents": [
"9b348c29-88ff-4fa8-b93e-f80bc7c3e723"
],
"tenantId": "qe",
"subTenantId": null
}
],
"metadata": {
"size": 20,
"totalElements": 1,
"totalPages": 1,
"number": 1,
"offset": 0
}
}
Syntax for Exporting a Package
You can use the REST API content management service to export a package containing content as a .zip le.
Input
The query URL for the export command must specify the ID of the package to export.
Table 3‑17. Export Query URL Parameters
Name Description Type
id The identier of the package Path
secureValueFormat The format in which secure values should be sent. This
parameter is optional and defaults to "BLANKOUT".
Query
Output
The output of this command is a .zip le.
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
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