createEvent action details

[standVM]

The vCloud plug-in for vCenter Orchestrator 5 provides an action named "createEvent" whose scripting tab gives the following details:

//Auto generated script, cannot be modified !
actionResult = System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vCloud.schema.objects").createEvent(ownerArg,serviceNamespaceArg,successArg,typeFullArg,userArg) ;

There are no details on what type of enitites should be bound to each of the parameters.  Any help in this will be much appreciated.

[cdecanini_]

I use it in a workflow. I will get back to you in the next couple of hours.

[cdecanini_]

ownerArg : An object this event refers to (i.e vApp)

serviceNamespaceArg : a string identifying the service generating the event (i.e com.vmware.vco)

successArg : a boolean (true for success, false for failure)

typeFullArg : a string indicating the event details

userArg: a vCD user object reference

Also note that the action returns a VclEvent object.

To create the event use the createEventAdminOrg action with passing an admin org and the vclEvent you created.

[cdecanini_ · Accepted solution]

And I noticed I did not use tha action in the library because it is missing a parameter (this is a bug I reported previously).

Replace it with a scriptable task doing:

vcdEvent = new VclEvent();
vcdEvent.owner = ownerArg.getReference();
vcdEvent.serviceNamespace = serviceNamespaceArg;
vcdEvent.success = successArg;
vcdEvent.type = typeArg;
vcdEvent.typeFull = typeFullArg;
vcdEvent.user = userArg.getReference();

Set vcdEvent as output parameter of the scriptable task

then use vcdEvent as the input of createEventAdminOrg as below

[standVM]

Thank you for the code - this is very helpful.  I am new to using the vCD APIs.  Appreciate if you could provide help with the following:

1. What is the entity/class used for "user"
2. Where can I find more details on the vCD APIs (besides the API explorer).

Thanks again for you help.

[cdecanini_]

1 - VclUser is the javascrip object type

2 - The vCD 5.1 API doc is very helpful. The API Schema Reference is good to have in addition to vCO API explorer.