Bulk Api; Web Services Api - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 Administration Manual

Bulk API

The Bulk API provides you with the possibility of querying the ADM with more sophisticated filters, and
browsing the result set by means of pagination. The results are delivered in subsets (pages) of a predefined
size and formatted in XML CIM. This API is intended for those cases where an application intends to browse
on finely‐filtered segment of the ADMʹs data.
The Bulk API works as follows
1 Create the filter object and select the level of granularity of the results.
2 Call query( ) with the filter object and obtain the task UUID in string form.
3 After the task is FINISHED, you can retrieve the maximum amount of pages available in this result set by
calling getPageAmount( ).
4 At this moment, there is an iterator in ADM that you can control by the following calls, and the results
retrieved from them:
a hasNextPage( )
b getNextPage( )
5 After finishing retrieval of all the data with the specific query, you must call closeQuery() to release all
resources associated with this query.

Web Services API

The preferred method to access ADMʹs API is through the web services API, which provides for a
standardized way of communication and high interoperability. This API is not locked in a given programming
language.
ADM offers a description of the API in a machine‐readable document formatted in Web Services Description
Language (WSDL). With this document, automated tools available for the popular programming languages
can create the low‐level code necessary to access transparently the functionality provided by the ADM.
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Appendix B ADM API Tutorial
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