Psphere vm object giving wrong name

[Saju M]

Psphere vm object giving wrong name

a) Name of VM in vcenter is
TestVM6~!@#$%^&*()+{}|":?><,./;'\][=-` bbb

c) but vm.name returns
TestVM6~!@#$%25^&*()+{}|":?><,.%2f;'%5c][=-` bbb

So i can't query VM b name like,  VirtualMachine.get(client, name="TestVM6~!@#$%^&*()+{}|":?><,./;'\][=-` bbb"). Getting error ObjectNotF

oundError:.

Is psphere using any encoding ???.

[Matthew Welch]

first of all..... your doing something wrong if your VM names have names like that lol.

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[Saju M]

Hi matt,

In vcenter, we can name DC, VM, cluster and folder like TestVM6~!@

#$%^&*()+{}|":?><,./;'\][=-` bbb.

vcenter allow all characters (no restrictions).

Thanks,

[Michael Rice]

Is there a reason you aren't searching using uuid? I use uuid for this very reason. 

Thanks

Mike

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[Saju M]

Hi Matt,

Thanks matt,

I think, we cant use uuid to query all Managedobjects, Only Host and VM support query by uuid.

I think, big issue of vmware API is lack of a unique identifier.
I think, moid is unique, but we can't use it to query managedobjects.



My observation
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Please note this behaviour also.  
Replacing following chars
% with %25
/ with %2f
\ with %5c

Actual name in vcenter: TestVM6~!@

#$%^&*()+{}|":?><,./;'\][=-` bbb

Actual name in objectbrowser/vsphere: TestVM6~!@#$%25^&*()+{}|":?><,.%2f;'%5c][=-` bbb