VMware VCLOUD API 1.0 - API - Remove a User; Group Administration; Import a Group

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Chapter 6 Administrative Operations
Response:
200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml
...
<User name="user@example.com" type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml"
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/user/85" ...>
<Link rel="edit" type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml"
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/user/85"/>
<Link rel="remove" href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/user/85"/>
<FullName>Example User Full Name</FullName>
<EmailAddress>user@example.com</EmailAddress>
<Role type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.role+xml"
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/role/105"/>
<IsEnabled>false</IsEnabled>
</User>
Remove a User
Beforeyoucanremoveauser,youmustdisabletheUserobjectbychangingthevalueofitsIsEnabled
elementtofalse,asshowninExample 6‐27.Afterithasbeendisabled,theUserelementcontainsalink
whererel="remove".Anadministratorcanusethislinkremovetheuser
fromtheorganization,asshownin
Example 6‐28.
Example 6-28. Remove a User
Request:
DELETE http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/user/85
Response:
204 No Content
Group Administration
GroupsmustbeimportedfromLDAP.YoucannotusethevCloudAPItoaddorremovegroupmembers,or
changethenameofthegroup.Instead,youmustmakethechangesinthesourceLDAPdatabaseandthen
importthegroupagain.
Import a Group
ToimportagroupfromanLDAPdirectoryservice,POSTanemptyGroupbodytotheorganization’saddURL
forgroups.Thevalueofthenameattributeintherequestbodymustmatchthevalueofthegroup’sname
attributeinLDAP.
Example 6-29. Import a Group from LDAP
Request:
POST http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/org/26/groups
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.group+xml
<Group name="Engineering" xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1">
<Role type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.role+xml" name="vApp Wrangler"
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/admin/role/102"/>
</Group>