Virtual Infrastructure Extensible Managed Object APIs

• Virtual Infrastructure

ExtensibleManagedObject provides methods and properties that provide access to custom fields that may be associated with a managed object.

Use the CustomFieldsManager to define custom fields. The CustomFieldsManager handles the entire list of custom fields on a server. You can can specify the object type to which a particular custom field applies by setting its managedObjectType. (If you do not set a managed object type for a custom field definition, the field applies to all managed objects.)

Operations

GET

Extensible Managed Object Get Available Field

List of custom field definitions that are valid for the object's type.

GET

Extensible Managed Object Get Value

List of custom field values.

POST

Extensible Managed Object Set Custom Value

Assigns a value to a custom field.