Resolving references?

[pneumee]

Is there any helper function or API functionality that I'm missing that will resolve references to objects? Eg: Retrieve a VM instance, which has a reference to its network interface (NetworkInterfaceReference). I want a NetworkInterface object, not a reference. Is the only way to do this to pick apart the reference URI to grab the resource group name and network interface name and then do get()?

[lmazuel]

Hi,

Unfortunately, the VirtualMachine REST API which we use only gives the reference:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/mt163682.aspx

Moreover, Network is not the same client of Compute and they are two separate packages with no inter-dependencies.

So, you have to do something like this:

vm = compute_client.virtual_machines.get('vm1', 'vm1')
network_interface_full_id = vm.network_profile.network_interfaces[0].id
network_interface_short_id = network_interface_full_id.split('/')[-1]
network_interface_details = network_client.network_interfaces.get('vm1',network_interface_short_id)
print(network_interface_details.location)

[pneumee]

Thanks for confirming!