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Find excluded resources with the Python API
In the CloudShell 7.1 Python API, cloudshell.api.cloudshell_api.FindResources() does not return excluded resources, even when they're specified by exact name. Is there some flag to get FindResources to return excluded resources, or some other method I should use?
Here's some example code that creates a device, then shows it can only be found when not excluded.
import cloudshell.api.cloudshell_api as cloudshell_api
import cloudshell.api.common_cloudshell_api as common_cloudshell_api
import re
FOLDER = 'temp'
RESOURCE_NAME = 'test_resource'
api = cloudshell_api.CloudShellAPISession('pscloud-dev.vzbi.com', 'admin', 'admin', 'Global')
api.CreateFolder(FOLDER)
try:
api.CreateResource(
resourceFamily='Router', resourceModel='Cisco IOS Router', resourceName=RESOURCE_NAME,
resourceAddress='NA', folderFullPath=FOLDER
)
except common_cloudshell_api.CloudShellAPIError as e:
if e.code != '114': # Resource exists
raise e
finally:
api.IncludeResource(resourceFullPath=RESOURCE_NAME)
result = api.FindResources(resourceFullName=RESOURCE_NAME, exactName=True, includeSubResources=False)
assert len(result.Resources) == 1
assert result.Resources[0].Name == RESOURCE_NAME
result = api.ExcludeResource(resourceFullPath=RESOURCE_NAME)
assert re.search(r'Success="true"', result)
result = api.FindResources(resourceFullName=RESOURCE_NAME, exactName=True, includeSubResources=False)
assert len(result.Resources) == 1
assert result.Resources[0].Name is None
There is no way to get it from FindResources, you can ask support if it's a bug or not (since it does return for each resource an "excluded" boolean which is currently always false).
If you use the GetDomainDetails, you'll get the list of resources there - including the excluded resources, but you can't query for a specific list as with FindResources, so you'll have to loop through the results and find the relevant resources that you need.
Yaniv
Thanks for the quick and honest reply. I'll take this bug up with Support.
Support tells me this is not a bug, but rather that finding excluded resources is a new feature to be voted on. I disagree, but I've opened an idea anyway, and I hope others will vote on it.
