Implement something in lines of VIjava's InventoryNavigator
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Description
In vijava lib, there's a very handy class, called InventoryNavigator.
Basically, it allows you to search managed entities by type and returns a properly casted object.
InventoryNavigator(self.rootFolder).searchManagedEntity("DistributedVirtualPortgroup", name)
It would be great if pyvmomi provided something like this as well.
Here's the code for reference:
http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/com.cloudbees.thirdparty/vijava/5.0.0/com/vmware/vim25/mo/InventoryNavigator.java?av=f
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Read the referenced vijava InventoryNavigator implementation and inspect pyvmomi's managed-entity bindings around rootFolder. Define how searching by entity type and name should work and how results should be typed. Done means pyvmomi provides an equivalent inventory-search capability for calls such as searchManagedEntity("DistributedVirtualPortgroup", name).
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100