Sample Exchange

The plug-in generator package is a set of wizard and template workflows allowing to create a plug-in without doing any scripting.

Read more about Dynamic Types in this article.

To familiarize yourself with creating a Dynamic Types plug-in V2 you can follow this tutorial and/or this tutorial.

Requires:

• vCO 5.5.1 build 1617131 (vCO 5.5 U1 released with vSphere 5.5 U1) or greater.
• DynamicTypes plug-in build 166032 or later

Handle REST APIs with JSON or XML message formats.

• - Wizard based workflow to create a plug-in inventory handling
  • Multiple hosts *
  • Multiple levels of objects *
  • Caching to avoid repeating requests *
  • Requires a single URL per object to implement findRelation, findAll, findById *
  • Get object properties using
    • Simple properties: JavaScript like doted syntax
    • Complex properties: JSONSelect (By Lloyd Hilaiel) *
    • Complex properties with high performance: pluggable actions
• - Wizard based workflow to create and invoke object methods that are wrappable into plug-in workflows *
• - Export plug-in to a end user installable package including runtime

* New functionality of version 2

Special thanks to Brandon Saxe for integrating JSONSelect in Orchestrator.