VMware VCLOUD API 1.0 - API

vCloud API Programming Guide
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Get a Request for User Input
InExample 5‐34,theclientusesthevmPendingQuestionlinkreturnedinExample 5‐33togeta
VmPendingQuestiondocumentthatincludesthequestionandthesetofchoicesallowedintheresponse.
Example 5-34. Get a Vm Pending Question
Request:
GET http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/vApp/vm-5/question
Response:
200 OK
Content-type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vmPendingQuestion+xml ...
<VmPendingQuestion xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1" ... >
<Link type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vmPendingAnswer+xml"
href="http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/vApp/vm-5/question/action/answer"/>
<Question>msg.parallel.file.open:Parallel port output file
"/vmfs/volumes/d6162a46-58e50cab/linuxftp/vm-mgi.log" already exists. Do you
want to replace it with any newly created content, or append new content to
the end of the file?
</Question>
<QuestionId>50</QuestionId>
<Choices>
<Id>0</Id>
<Text>Append</Text>
</Choices>
<Choices>
<Id>1</Id>
<Text>Replace</Text>
</Choices>
<Choices>
<Id>2</Id>
<Text>Cancel</Text>
</Choices>
</VmPendingQuestion>
Provide Requested User Input
Example 5‐35showsthearesponse,deliveredbyaPOSTtothequestion/answerlinkoftheVm.
Example 5-35. Answer a Vm Pending Question
Request:
POST http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0/vApp/vm-5/question/action/answer
Content-type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.vmPendingAnswer+xml
...
<VmQuestionAnswer xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1">
<ChoiceId>2</ChoiceId>
<QuestionId>50</QuestionId>
</VmQuestionAnswer>
Response:
204 No Content