Re: vCenter Converter API with Ruby

Hi,

I started to poke around with Ruby and SOAP (with Savon) to find a way to make requests to the API.

I was able to figure out how to send the requests, but one thing bugs me out. It's the "_this" parameter for all requests that is required.

For example, if I want to send a ConverterLogin request, I need to pass userName and password parameters with the request and "_this" parameter.

From the API docs I see that "_this" parameter is a reference to the method itself, but I'm not sure what exactly this means.

This is a dump of my request (so far):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:converter="urn:converter" xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

<env:Body>

<converter:ConverterLogin>

<converter:_this type="ConverterServiceInstance">ServiceInstance</converter:_this>

<converter:userName>MyUser</converter:userName>

<converter:password>MyPassword</converter:password>

</converter:ConverterLogin>

</env:Body>

</env:Envelope>

but each time I get "ManagedObjectNotFoundFault" from the API

<ManagedObjectNotFoundFault xmlns="urn:converter" xsi:type="vim25:ManagedObjectNotFound" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25">

<vim25:obj type="ConverterServiceInstance">ServiceInstance</vim25:obj>

</ManagedObjectNotFoundFault>

Can someone explain to me what is this "_this" parameter and how need to be used correctly. I'm a little bit noob in this area, so more details will be good and sample XML dumps will be fine as well...

Thanks