vSphere Web Client Object properties

Question

In vSphere web client extension development , i want to fetch the properties of VM , In the sample code model they are adding some annotations like

[Model(property="name")]
    /**
     * The name of this VirtualMachine.
     */
    public var name:String;

Where can i get the List of available properties for all objects (like vm , datastore , hosts)

Answer 1

Presuming that you're talking about building an extension for the vSphere 5.1 web client, the documentation has a list of extension points. Listing the properties for each type of object would be far outside the scope of an answer here, so I'll instead point you to the vSphere 5.1 SDK documentation, specifically the appendix listing all properties.

If you're new to vSphere web client extension development, a good starting point is the What’s New In vSphere 5.1 API, vSphere Web Client SDK & vCenter SSO SDK blog post. I see that you've already posted the same question in the VMware Communities, so I don't need to point you there.

Answer 2

The properties correspond to the properties of Managed and Data Objects as described in the vSphere Managment SDK documentation. In particular the example you gave corresponds to Managed Object VirtualMachine's name property. Since VirtualMachine inherits from ManagedEntity, this is where the name property is actually defined (see http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc%2Fvim.ManagedEntity.html for details). You can also use property.paths.into.data.objects to access properties of nested data objects.

Answer 3

If you want to get list of vm or datastore... you can use DataServiceProvider get data with a simple constraint