Property Collector Continue Retrieve Properties Ex

Retrieves additional results from a retrieval started by RetrievePropertiesEx on the same session on the same PropertyCollector.

Required privileges: System.View

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/PropertyCollector/{moId}/ContinueRetrievePropertiesEx

COPY

Path Parameters

string

moId

Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case PropertyCollector/{moId}.

string

release

Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.3.0 APIs.

Request Body

ContinueRetrievePropertiesExRequestType of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "token": "string"
}

string

token

Required

the token returned in the previous RetrieveResult returned on the same session by the same PropertyCollector.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

retrieved objects.

Returns RetrieveResult of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: DataObject

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "token": "string",
    "objects": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "obj": {
                "_typeName": "string",
                "type": "string",
                "value": "string"
            },
            "propSet": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "name": "string",
                    "val": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "missingSet": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "path": "string",
                    "fault": {
                        "_typeName": "string",
                        "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
                        "faultMessage": [
                            {
                                "_typeName": "string",
                                "key": "string",
                                "arg": [
                                    {
                                        "_typeName": "string",
                                        "key": "string",
                                        "value": {
                                            "_typeName": "string"
                                        }
                                    }
                                ],
                                "message": "string"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

string

token

Optional

A token used to retrieve further retrieve results.

If set, the token should be passed to PropertyCollector.ContinueRetrievePropertiesEx to retrieve more results. Each token may be passed to continueRetrievePropertiesEx only once, and only in the same session in which it was returned and to the same PropertyCollector object that returned it.

If unset, there are no further results to retrieve after this RetrieveResult.

array of ObjectContent

objects

Required

retrieved objects.

500

InvalidArgument: If the token does not match the token from the previous RetrieveResult returned on the same session by the same PropertyCollector.

Returns InvalidProperty of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: MethodFault

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ],
    "name": "string"
}

string

name

Required

The property name that generated the error.

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Request

Path Parameters

Request Body

Authentication

Response

200 Response Body