vroParse

vRO XML Package Parser

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Setup
• Usage
• Support These Projects

Overview

vroParse is created by Jim Sadlek.

vroParse is an addendum to the vRealize Build Tools and Developer Tools, and is a Python package with two executable commands, parsevro and updatevro.

This project parses code embedded in scriptable tasks from out of Workflow XML, saves them as discrete files for editing and SCC, and imports the edits back into XML for inclusion in vRO Package updates.

Setup

pip install vroParse

The package is hosted on PyPi. If you do not have external access to the Internet, you will need to do a local install on your system.

To do that, obtain a clone of this repo to your local system. then, make sure to run the setup.py file, so you can install any dependencies you may need. To run the setup.py file, run the following command in your terminal.

python(3) setup.py install --record files

This will install all the dependencies listed in the setup.py file. Once done you can use the parsevro and updatevro commands.

To manually remove this package run rm $(cat files)

Usage

parsevro [-h] [-v]

This script parses code from vRO Workflow XML that contain embedded Scriptable Tasks.
By: Jim Sadlek - VMware, Inc.

This must be run from the vRO Package's top-level folder, which contains a 'workflows/src/main/resources/Workflow' subfolder.
This script traverses all sub folders of the above and stores embedded code in a '.parsevro' folder.
This is usually run after a 'mvn vro:pull' command when using vRealize Build Tools, or exporting to a folder with native vRO.

-h, --help     show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose  Display verbose logging output

Here is a simple example of using the vroParse package to parse vRO XML package files for Scriptable Tasks' element code, and then update XML with edited code, from within Visual Studio Code or some other code editor outside of vRO.

After performing a mvn vro:pull operation, run this from the root folder: parsevro

After performing a mvn vrealize:push operation, run this from the root folder: updatevro

Other Projects

vRealize Build Tools: vRealize Build Tools is a Vmware Fling that provides tools to development and release teams implementing solutions based on vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).

vRealize Developer Tools: vRealize Developer Tools is a Visual Studio Code Extension available on GitHub that provides code intelligence features and enables a more developer-friendly experience when creating vRealize content.