Extended the InventoryBaseDSC class to resolve the path to a specific Inventory Item

[SimeonGerginov]

Signed-off-by: SimeonGerginov simeongerginov1@gmail.com

[dmilov]

I'm sure there is more effective way to resolve path. Now algorithm starts with the parent folder, gets all children on the next level from the server and filters by name client-side and this repeat to the last level in the path. Those are a lot of server requests.

One way to optimize is getting inventory item by name, and going up through it's parent names to check which on if any has the desired path. I think the API allows filtering by name and you can request only the name property which will reduce the server round-trips and the data size retrieved from the server. I think Luc was implemented something similar in his resources. You can talk to him about it.

The request here is spend a little bit more time to figure out whether ammount of data and server round trips could be optimized before going forward with the resources that will inherit this base.

[SimeonGerginov]

Tested with the following values:

DatacenterPath = Datacenter
InventoryItemPath = host/MyNewFolder1/MyNewFolder2/MyNewFolder3/MyNewFolder4/MyTestCluster
InventoryItemName = Resources

[dmilov]

1. Rename "InventoryItemName" property to "Name"
2. Rename "InventoryItemPath" property to "InventoryPath"
3. Rename "DatacenterPath" property to "Datacenter"
4. InventoryPath shouldn't include the root folder. Define hidden property that will be set by inheritors to determine the root folder.

Here is an example configuration for reference

MyDatacenterFolder
-MyDatacenter
--MyCluster
---MyHost1
---MyDVS
---MyVM

?Datacenter MyDatacetner {
Name =
Path =
}

Cluster MyCluster {
[Key]Name = "MyCluster"
[Key]InventoryPath = ""
[Key]Datacenter = "MyDatacenterFolder/MyDatacenter"
DependsOn = [Datacenter]
Ensure = Present
}

DVS MyDVS {
Name = "MyDVS"
InvtoryPath = "MyNetworkFolder"
DatacenterPath = "MyDatacenterFolder/MyDatacenter"
Ensure = Present
}

VM MyVM {
Name = "MyVM"
InvtoryPath = "Discovered Virtual Machines"
DatacenterPath = "MyDatacenterFolder/MyDatacenter"
?Datastore = MyDatastore1
?Compute = MyHost1
Ensure = Present
DependsOn = [MyDatastore1]
DependsOn = [MyHost1]
}

[dmilov]

Update the documentation comments per my review comments. Everything else looks good.