converting xsd:anytype to xsd:string

[Kiran Madabhushi]

Hi

Some of the objects in vsphere sdk defined the attributes as xsd:anytype and I need to convert them to xsd:string

How do I do this one?

E.g is the while using the OptionManager (setting)

Thanks

Kiran

[Jonathan Kinred]

Hi Kiran,

Can you post some example code?

Jonathan

[Kiran Madabhushi]

Jonathan

Once you connect to the server, get the option manager

client = Client(ip,user,password)

om = client.si.content.setting

om.QueryOptions(name='VirtualCenter.FQDN')

returns

[(OptionValue){

   key = "VirtualCenter.FQDN"

   value = "localhost"

 }]

I want to change this, so I create the OptionValue spec

spec = client.create('OptionValue')

spec.key = "VirtualCenter.FQDN"

spec.value = "172.0.0.1"

om.UpdateOptions(spec)

The problem is the value is of "any type" and to force that to string the xml looks like this

<value type='xsd:string'>172.0.0.1'</value>

If i use the spec.value as in the example then 'xsd:string' is not set and vcenter throws an error

This is true with all messages where th type is of "any type"

Hope I am clear here

Kiran