Vcloudextension - VMware VCLOUD API 1.0 - API Programming Manual

This extensibility mechanism, which is not used in this release of the vCloud API, allows new servers to extend
the XML representations native to this release of the vCloud API without requiring existing clients to
understand those extensions.

VCloudExtension

A client should be prepared to encounter a VCloudExtension element in any response. If the element declares
required="true" and client does not know how to interpret the contents of the element, the client can ignore
it, but it must include the VCloudExtension in any request to modify the element that contains it. A server
must return a failure when a request includes a VCloudExtension element that declares required="true"
but the server does not understand the extension.
Schema
Name
required
any attribute name
any element name
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Min Max Type Description
0 1 xs:boolean True if this extension must be understood by the server
0 n xs:any An arbitrary number of attributes of any type
0 n xs:any An arbitrary number of elements of any type
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