In my recent consulting projects, I used Python on various projects including the VMware pyVmomi () for managing vSphere. Because XML is ubiqutous these days, I had to use XML for configuration, passing information, etc. Parsing XML is a very basic part of using XML. The following sample code can achieve the same thing (print out may be different) as the C# sample that parses XML I wrote before. Read more...
Just started to work on hacking the Web application of vCAC and REST APIs in C#. As expected, the XML processing is an indispensable part for that purpose. I have worked on C# on and off in the past, but never as consistently as on Java. To get myself familiar with the related C# APIs for parsing, I coded the following sample code.
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It’s a known bug in VI Java API that it did not escape strings to be included within a XML tag. The potential risk, although very very rare, is that it can blow the de-serialization of a request on the server side. I did get one or two reports on failing on login, which turned out to be caused by special characters like < or > in passwords. As a quick fix, an escaping logic has been added to escape the special characters in passwords. Read more...
In yesterday’s blog, I talked about a little known secret of vSphere MOB – the invisible embedded XML in the HTML pages. To take advantage of the secret, I created a client side REST API which was shipped in VI Java API 2.0. Read more...
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