Can't pass parameters to method

[kevinmccarthy]

Looks like method invocation is not slotting arguments into SOAP document properly.

Example:

// list all files in a given datastore
async function listFiles( client, datastore ) {
    let flags = {
        fileSize: true,
        fileType:  true,
        modification: true
    };
    let spec = {
        details: flags
    }
    let moref = await vconnect.util.moRef( 'HostDatastoreBrowser', datastore.browser );
    return await client.method( 'SearchDatastore_Task', {
        _this: moref,
        dataStorePath: '/',
        searchSpec: spec
    }).then(function(result) {
        console.log( "Found " + results.length + " files on " + datastore.name );
        return results;
    }).caught(function(err) {
        console.error( "Can't list files: " err );
        throw(err);
    });
}

Returns this:

Can't list files: {"errorCode":400,"message":"Got <dataStorePath> tag when expecting <_this> tag\n\nwhile parsing call information for method SearchDatastore_Task\nat line 1, column 281\n\nwhile parsing SOAP body\nat line 1, column 270\n\nwhile parsing SOAP envelope\nat line 1, column 38\n\nwhile parsing HTTP request for method search\non object of type vim.host.DatastoreBrowser\nat line 1, column 0"}

[kevinmccarthy]

User error. :) dataStorePath is invalid -- needed to be datastorePath

[kevinmccarthy]

I am not able to specify the enumerated /dynamic types. For instance:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.Query.html

the FileFolderQuery is simply a marker (has no attributes or members), but I method.js does not seen to be able to map 'FileFolderQuery', ['FileFolderQuery'], or { FileFolderQuery: null } into that dynamic type definition.

Is there any way to specify this using a typing function?

[kevinmccarthy]

This also does not work:

const spec = {
    query: vconnect.util.sType('FolderFileQuery'),
    details: {
        fileOwner: false,
        fileSize: true,
        fileType:  false,
        modification: true
    }
};

I noticed the type is defined in the vsphere-schema instance, but still don't see any docs on how to resolve it.

"FolderFileQuery": {
    "type": "FolderFileQuery",
    "inherits": "FileQuery"
  },

[bhoriuchi]

It looks like you are using the v1 code which is no longer in development. In the v2 code which is currently in development you can accomplish this similar to https://github.com/bhoriuchi/vsphere-connect/blob/master/src/spec/VirtualMachine.js#L163 . The v2 api is documented http://bhoriuchi.github.io/vsphere-connect/#/api

If you absolutely need to use the v1 code which uses the node-soap library you can specify an attributes property with the xsi type like here https://github.com/bhoriuchi/vsphere-connect/blob/v1/lib/specUtil.js#L18-L20

[kevinmccarthy]

This seems to work:

const spec = {
    details: {
        fileOwner: false,
        fileSize: true,
        fileType:  false,
        modification: true
    },
    query: {
        attributes: {
            'xsi:type': 'FolderFileQuery'
        }
    }
};

Thanks! I will upgrade to v2 shortly, but the v1 fix is super helpful!

Regards,
Kevin