On 05/18/2013 04:03 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote: > VI objects support inheritance with subtype polymorphism. For example the > FileInfo object type is extended by FloppyImageFileInfo, FolderFileInfo > etc. Then SearchDatastore_Task returns an array of FileInfo objects and > depending on the represented file the FileInfo is actually a FolderFileInfo > or FloppyImageFileInfo etc. The actual type information is stored as XML > attribute that allows clients such as libvirt to distinguish between the > actual types. esxVI_GetActualObjectType is used to extract the actual type. > > I assumed that this mechanism would be used for all VI object types that > have subtypes. But this is not the case. It seems only to be used for types > that are actually used as generic base type such as FileInfo. But it is not > used for types that got extended later such as ElementDescription that was > extended by ExtendedElementDescription (added in vSphere API 4.0) or that > are not meant to be used with subtype polymorphism. > > This breaks the deserialization of types that contain ElementDescription > properties such as PerfCounterInfo or ChoiceOption, because the code > expects an ElementDescription object to have an XML attribute named type > that is not present, since ExtendedElementDescription was added to the > esx_vi_generator.input in commit 60f0f55ee4686fecbffc5fb32f90863427d02a14. > This in turn break virtual machine question handling and auto answering. > > Fix this by using the base type if no XML type attribute is present. > --- > src/esx/esx_vi_types.c | 7 +++---- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/esx/esx_vi_types.c b/src/esx/esx_vi_types.c > index 1a26556..c55396c 100644 > --- a/src/esx/esx_vi_types.c > +++ b/src/esx/esx_vi_types.c > @@ -720,10 +720,9 @@ esxVI_GetActualObjectType(xmlNodePtr node, esxVI_Type baseType, > BAD_CAST "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"); > > if (type == NULL) { > - virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, > - _("%s is missing 'type' property"), > - esxVI_Type_ToString(baseType)); > - return -1; > + // no actual type specified, use base type instead Use /**/, not // > + *actualType = baseType; > + return 0; > } ACK with comment fixed.