Saving the vCenter Server
Session Cookie
The code fragment in this section establishes an HTTP session
with the vCenter Server instance and saves the HTTP session cookie.
The following sequence describes these steps and
shows the corresponding objects and methods.
Use the
getHandlerResolver
method to save the default message handler. To use the HTTP and SOAP message
handlers, you must first save the default message handler so that you can
restore it after login. The HTTP and SOAP message handlers impose overhead that
is unnecessary after login.
| VimService.getHandlerResolver( )
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Set the cookie handler.
The
HeaderCookieExtractionHandler method retrieves
the HTTP cookie.
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Get the VIM port. The VIM
port provides access to the vSphere API methods, including the
LoginByToken method.
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Set the request context
endpoint address to the vCenter Server URL.
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Retrieve the
ServiceContent . This
method establishes the HTTP connection and sets the session cookie.
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Extract the cookie and
save it for later use.
| HeaderCookieExtractionHandler.getCookie
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The following example shows Java code that saves
the session cookie.
Saving the vCenter Server Session
Cookie
/* * The example uses a SAML token (obtained from a vCenter Single Sign-On Server) * and the vCenter Server URL. * The following declarations indicate the datatypes; the token datatype (Element) corresponds * to the token datatype returned by the vCenter Single Sign-On Server. * * Element token; -- from vCenter Single Sign-On Server * String vcServerUrl; -- identifies vCenter Server * * First, save the default message handler. */ HandlerResolver defaultHandler = vimService.getHandlerResolver(); /* * Create a VIM service object. */ vimService = new VimService(); /* * Construct a managed object reference for the ServiceInstance. */ ManagedObjectReference SVC_INST_REF = new ManagedObjectReference(); SVC_INST_REF.setType("ServiceInstance"); SVC_INST_REF.setValue("ServiceInstance"); /* * Create a handler resolver. * Create a cookie extraction handler and add it to the handler resolver. * Set the VIM service handler resolver. */ HeaderCookieExtractionHandler cookieExtractor = new HeaderCookieExtractionHandler(); HeaderHandlerResolver handlerResolver = new HeaderHandlerResolver(); handlerResolver.addHandler(cookieExtractor); vimService.setHandlerResolver(handlerResolver); /* * Get the VIM port for access to vSphere API methods. This call clears the request context. */ vimPort = vimService.getVimPort(); /* * Get the request context and set the connection endpoint. */ Map<String, Object> ctxt = ((BindingProvider) vimPort).getRequestContext(); ctxt.put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, vcServerUrl); ctxt.put(BindingProvider.SESSION_MAINTAIN_PROPERTY, true); /* * Retrieve the ServiceContent. This call establishes the HTTP connection. */ serviceContent = vimPort.retrieveServiceContent(SVC_INST_REF); /* * Save the HTTP cookie. */ String cookie = cookieExtractor.getCookie();