[Users] Fwd: Re: API Query on --> api.vms.list

[Rami Vaknin]

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Subject: 	Re: [Users] API Query on --> api.vms.list
Date: 	Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:31:59 +0300
From: 	Rami Vaknin <rvaknin at redhat.com>
Reply-To: 	rvaknin at redhat.com
Organization: 	Red Hat
To: 	Anil Vettathu <anilv.in at gmail.com>
CC: 	users at ovirt.org



On 06/06/2012 04:02 PM, Anil Vettathu wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am writing a small python script to get the name of all the VMs that 
> matches a string.
>
> ==========
> import sys
> import getopt
> import optparse
> import os
> import time
> from ovirtsdk.api import API
> from ovirtsdk.xml import params
>
> URL='https://192.168.1.1:8443/api' #RHEVM API ACCESS URL
> USERNAME='admin at internal'
> PASSWORD='ovirt'
>
>
> api=API(url=URL, username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD)
>
> vmnames = api.vms.list(query = 'name=a')
> print vmnames

you print the vm object you get, while you need to print the "name" field:
print vmnames.name

Sorry, you first need to iterate on what you got:
for vm in vmnames:
     print vm.name
> ==========
>
> Print output is,
>
> <ovirtsdk.infrastructure.brokers.VM object at 0x1d4e790>
>
> I was expecting a list of VMs which contains "a" in their names.
>
> Am I doing it correct? Can someone guide me with a small example?
> My reference is 
> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/SDK#Querying_collection_with_oVirt_search_engine_query_.26_custom_constraint
>
> Thanks,
> Anil
>
>
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Thanks,

Rami Vaknin, QE @ Red Hat, TLV, IL.

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