Working with the vCenter Python Rest API client

vcenter_rest_api_example.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
__metaclass__ = type

from com.vmware.cis.tagging_client import CategoryModel
from vmware.vapi.vsphere.client import create_vsphere_client
from pprint import pprint
import requests

session = requests.session()
session.verify = False
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()

client = create_vsphere_client(
            server="192.168.0.191",
            username="[email protected]",
            password="####",
            session=session)

categories = client.tagging.Category.list()

category_list = []

for category in categories:
    category_list.append(client.tagging.Category.get(category))

pprint(category_list)

category_spec = client.tagging.Category.CreateSpec()

category_spec.name = "matt"

category_spec.description = ""

category_spec.cardinality = CategoryModel.Cardinality.SINGLE

obj_types_set = ["Datastore"]

category_spec.associable_types = set(obj_types_set)

category_id = client.tagging.Category.create(category_spec)