com.vmware.vim25.mo
Class InventoryNavigator

java.lang.Object
  com.vmware.vim25.mo.InventoryNavigator

public class InventoryNavigator
extends Object

Constructor Summary

InventoryNavigator(ManagedEntity rootEntity)

Method Summary

ManagedEntity[]	searchManagedEntities(boolean recurse) Retrieve container contents from specified parent recursively if requested.
ManagedEntity[]	searchManagedEntities(String type) Get the first ManagedObjectReference from current node for the specified type
ManagedEntity[]	searchManagedEntities(String[][] typeinfo, boolean recurse) Retrieve content recursively with multiple properties.
ManagedEntity	searchManagedEntity(String type, String name) Get the ManagedObjectReference for an item under the specified parent node that has the type and name specified.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

InventoryNavigator

public InventoryNavigator(ManagedEntity rootEntity)

Method Detail

searchManagedEntities

public ManagedEntity[] searchManagedEntities(boolean recurse)
                                      throws InvalidProperty,
                                             RuntimeFault,
                                             RemoteException

Retrieve container contents from specified parent recursively if requested.

Parameters:

recurse - retrieve contents recursively from the root down

Throws:

RemoteException

RuntimeFault

InvalidProperty

searchManagedEntities

public ManagedEntity[] searchManagedEntities(String type)
                                      throws InvalidProperty,
                                             RuntimeFault,
                                             RemoteException

Get the first ManagedObjectReference from current node for the specified type

Throws:

InvalidProperty

RuntimeFault

RemoteException

searchManagedEntities

public ManagedEntity[] searchManagedEntities(String[][] typeinfo,
                                             boolean recurse)
                                      throws InvalidProperty,
                                             RuntimeFault,
                                             RemoteException

Retrieve content recursively with multiple properties. the typeinfo array contains typename + properties to retrieve.

Parameters:

typeinfo - 2D array of properties for each typename

recurse - retrieve contents recursively from the root down

Returns:

retrieved object contents

Throws:

RemoteException

RuntimeFault

InvalidProperty

searchManagedEntity

public ManagedEntity searchManagedEntity(String type,
                                         String name)
                                  throws InvalidProperty,
                                         RuntimeFault,
                                         RemoteException

Get the ManagedObjectReference for an item under the specified parent node that has the type and name specified.

Parameters:

type - type of the managed object

name - name to match

Returns:

First ManagedEntity object of the type / name pair found

Throws:

RemoteException

RuntimeFault

InvalidProperty