Esx Settings Repository Software export

Exports the software specification document and/or the image.

This operation was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

Returns an authorization error if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:

Operation execution requires VcIntegrity.lifecycleSoftwareSpecification.Read.

Request

URI

POST

https://{api_host}/api/esx/settings/repository/software/{softwareSpec}?action=export

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Path Parameters

string

softwareSpec

Required

Identifier of the software specification in the repository.

The parameter must be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.esx.settings.repository.software_spec.

Request Body

The export specification to specify data types to be exported.

Esx Settings Repository Software ExportSpec of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "export_software_spec": false,
    "export_iso_image": false,
    "export_offline_bundle": false,
    "export_only_default_image": false
}

boolean

export_software_spec

Required

Whether to export software specification document.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

boolean

export_iso_image

Required

Whether to export ISO image.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

boolean

export_offline_bundle

Required

Whether to export offline bundle.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

boolean

export_only_default_image

Required

Whether to export only default image.

This property was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

api_key_auth

Responses

200

A map from export type to URL of the exported data for that type.

Operation doesn't return any data structure

401

If the caller is not authenticated.

Returns Vapi Std Errors Unauthenticated of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: InlineVapi Std Errors Unauthenticated0

"Vapi Std Errors Unauthenticated Object"

string

challenge

Optional

Indicates the authentication challenges applicable to the target API provider. It can be used by a client to discover the correct authentication scheme to use. The exact syntax of the value is defined by the specific provider, the protocol and authentication schemes used.

For example, a provider using REST may adhere to the WWW-Authenticate HTTP header specification, RFC7235, section 4.1. In this case an example challenge value may be: SIGN realm="27da1358-2ba4-11e9-b210-d663bd873d93",sts="http://vcenter/sso?vsphere.local", Basic realm="vCenter"

This property was added in vSphere API 7.0.0.0.

This property is optional because it was added in a newer version than its parent node.

403

If the caller does not have the necessary privileges.

Returns Vapi Std Errors Unauthorized of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: InlineVapi Std Errors Unauthorized0

"Vapi Std Errors Unauthorized Object"

404

If there is no software specification associated with softwareSpec in the repository.

Returns Vapi Std Errors NotFound of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: InlineVapi Std Errors NotFound0

"Vapi Std Errors NotFound Object"

500

If there is an unknown internal error. The accompanying error message will give more details about the failure.

Returns Vapi Std Errors Error of type(s) application/json

"Vapi Std Errors Error Object"

array of object

messages

Required

Stack of one or more localizable messages for human error consumers.

The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes the error from the perspective of the operation the client invoked.

Each subsequent message in the stack describes the "cause" of the prior message.

object

data

Optional

Data to facilitate clients responding to the operation reporting a standard error to indicating that it was unable to complete successfully.

Operations may provide data that clients can use when responding to errors. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the context of the operation reporting the error, different operations that report the same error may provide different data in the error. The documentation for each each operation will describe what, if any, data it provides for each error it reports.

The Vapi Std Errors ArgumentLocations, Vapi Std Errors FileLocations, and Vapi Std Errors TransientIndication schemas are intended as possible values for this property. Vapi Std DynamicID may also be useful as a value for this property (although that is not its primary purpose). Some resources may provide their own specific schemas for use as the value of this property when reporting errors from their operations.

Some operations will not set this property when reporting errors.

string

error_type

Required

Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure type.

For more information see: Vapi Std Errors Error Type.

This property was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.

Can be missing or null for compatibility with preceding implementations.

503

If the service is not available.

Returns Vapi Std Errors ServiceUnavailable of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: InlineVapi Std Errors ServiceUnavailable0

"Vapi Std Errors ServiceUnavailable Object"

Code Samples

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                    curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"export_iso_image:"boolean","export_offline_bundle:"boolean","export_only_default_image:"boolean","export_software_spec:"boolean"}' https://{api_host}/api/esx/settings/repository/software/{softwareSpec}?action=export

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Description

Request

Path Parameters

Request Body

Authentication

Response

200 Response Body

Errors

Esx Settings Operations

GET

Esx Settings Repository Software get