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vim25

Experimental Go interface to the VMware vSphere API. The purpose of this project is to create a small set of funcions to provide basic operations to deploy, run and manage virtual machines inside vSphere environment.

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vmware ESXi 4.1 support

Hi @igm,

I tried vim25 on vmware ESXi 4.1, and got server error:

undefined TraversalSpec name

The root cause is that ESXi 4.1 cannot recognize following tags correctly:

<selectSet xmlns:XMLSchema-instance="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" XMLSchema-instance:type="TraversalSpec">

And it should be:

<selectSet xsi:type="TraversalSpec">

I tried go-lang XML tags, but failed to get it work. So I did a hack on service.go:

--- a/service.go
+++ b/service.go
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ func (s *Service) SoapRequest(body *Body) (*Body, error) {
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
+
+   //4.1 hacks
+   xmlEnvelope = []byte(strings.Replace(string(xmlEnvelope), "XMLSchema-instance:type", "xsi:type", -1))
+   xmlEnvelope = []byte(strings.Replace(string(xmlEnvelope), "xmlns:XMLSchema-instance=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"", "", -1))
+   xmlEnvelope = []byte(strings.Replace(string(xmlEnvelope), "<Body xmlns=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">", "<Body xmlns=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">", -1))
+
    req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", s.Url, bytes.NewReader(xmlEnvelope))
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err

It works for me on ESXi 4.1 & 5.1, but I don't think it's a good practice.

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