Work around a software bug in vSphere
Due to a software bug in vSphere, it fails to handle ampersand in datacenter names. The solution is to do what vSphere does (when browsing) and double-encode ampersands. It is likely other characters need special treatment like this as well, haven't found any.
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def vmware_path(datastore, datacenter, path):
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''' Constructs a URL path that VSphere accepts reliably '''
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path = "/folder/%s" % path.lstrip("/")
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# Due to a software bug in vSphere, it fails to handle ampersand in datacenter names
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# The solution is to do what vSphere does (when browsing) and double-encode ampersands, maybe others ?
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datacenter = datacenter.replace('&', '%26')
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if not path.startswith("/"):
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path = "/" + path
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params = dict( dsName = datastore )
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