vcloud-rest

DESCRIPTION

Unofficial ruby bindings for VMware® vCloud Director's rest APIs.

Note: at this stage both v.1.5 and v.5.1 are supported. It defaults to v.5.1 but it's possible to specify _api_version="1.5".

See vCloud API for details.

INSTALLATION

This plugin is distributed as a Ruby Gem. To install it, run:

gem install vcloud-rest

Depending on your system's configuration, you may need to run this command with root privileges.

vcloud-rest is tested against ruby 2.1.2, 2.0.0, 1.9.3 and ruby-head.

FEATURES

• login/logout
• list/show Organizations
• show VDCs
• show Catalogs
• show Catalog Items
• various vApp's commands
  • show
  • create/clone
  • start/stop/delete/reset/suspend/reboot
  • basic network configuration
• basic VM configuration
  • show
  • set cpu/RAM
  • basic network configuration
  • basic VM Guest Customization configuration
  • start/stop/delete/reset/suspend/reboot
• basic vApp compose capabilities
• basic vApp NAT port forwarding creation
• Catalog item upload with byterange upload and retry capabilities
• show Network details

TODO

• extend test coverage
• a lot more...

PREREQUISITES

• nokogiri
• rest-client
• httpclient
• ruby-progressbar

(see vcloud_rest.gemspec for details)

For testing purpose:

• minitest (included in ruby 1.9)
• webmock

USAGE

require 'vcloud-rest/connection'
conn = VCloudClient::Connection.new(HOST, USER, PASSWORD, ORG_NAME, VERSION)
conn.login
conn.get_organizations

EXAMPLE

A (mostly complete) example can be found in

examples/example.rb

DEBUGGING

Debug can be enabled setting the following environment variables:

• VCLOUD_REST_DEBUG_LEVEL: to specify the log level (e.g., INFO, DEBUG)
• VCLOUD_REST_LOG_FILE: to specify the output file (defaults to STDOUT)

TESTING

Simply run:

rake

Or:

ruby spec/connection_spec.rb

Note: in order to run tests with ruby 1.8.x you need to export RUBYOPT="rubygems"

Write new tests

Tests are now managed using VCR and thus real interactions are recorded and replayed.

In order to write new tests the following steps are required:

1. create a file test_credentials.yml
2. create a new test entry specifying a new VCR cassette my_test_case.yml
3. review and anonymize data if necessary under spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/my_test_case.yml

Note: values in test_credentials.yml are automatically anonymized.

Examples:

=> test_credentials.yml
:host: https://vcloud_instance_url
:username: test_username
:password: test_password
:org: test_organization

=> Test entry in connection_spec.rb
  it "should power off a given vapp" do
    VCR.use_cassette('vapps/poweroff_vapp') do
      connection.login
      task_id = connection.poweroff_vapp("65b4dbc9-b0b1-46e4-a420-8f8147369f8b")
      expect(task_id).to eq "ae791b59-4c9f-4fe2-9916-703f1fc3cbd5"
    end
  end

=> Recorded fixture (credentials auto-anonymized)
---
http_interactions:
- request:
    method: post
    uri: https://testuser%40testorg:testpass@testurl.local/api/sessions
    body:
      encoding: UTF-8
...

LICENSE

Author:: Stefano Tortarolo stefano.tortarolo@gmail.com

Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2012-2015 License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

CREDITS

This code was inspired by knife-cloudstack.