Really Easy Way to Clone a Session: Yet Another Contribution from NetApp
Recently there were questions in the vSphere Java API forum on how to clone a new session from an existing one. Although vSphere Java API wraps around the basic Web Services API cloneSession() method, simply calling the method doesn’t get what you want.
Why? The signature of cloneSession() is as follows. It returns UserSession, which is embedded inside ServiceInstance managed object in vSphere Java API. While using the API, you always starts from the ServiceInstance.
public UserSession cloneSession(String cloneTicket) throws InvalidLogin, RuntimeFault, RemoteException;
In vSphere Java API, the ServiceInstance and UserSession have one to one mapping. Without a new ServiceInstance around the new UserSession, the UserSession is not much helpful.
Luckily, we got yet another contribution from Eric Forgette who works at NetApp. The contributed code includes a new overloaded method cloneSession() method to return a ServiceInstance object.
As I described before, we’ve been trying very hard to keep the vSphere Java API as close to the basic Web Services as possible. In this case, we decided to break the rule a little bit for good reasons, mainly for usability.
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