<spanid="com-vmware-vapi-std-package"></span><h1>com.vmware.vapi.std package<aclass="headerlink"href="#module-com.vmware.vapi.std"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<spanid="com-vmware-vapi-std-errors-client-module"></span><h2>com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client module<aclass="headerlink"href="#module-com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client</span></code> module provides the standard
exceptions that can be included in the list of exceptions in the specification
of methods to indicate that the method might report those exceptions. It also
provides some classes intended to be used as payload to provide additional
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">AlreadyExists</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='ALREADY_EXISTS'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.AlreadyExists"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">AlreadyExists</span></code> exception indicates that an attempt was made to
create an entity but the entity already exists. Typically the entity has a
name or identifier that is required to be unique in some context, but there
is already an entity with that name or identifier in that context.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to create a new tag category when a tag category with the
specified name already exists.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to create a new tag in tag category when a tag with the specified
name already exists the tag category.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to create a LUN with a specific UUID on a node (for replication
purposes) when a LUN with that UUID already exists on the node.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to create a file in a directory or move or copy a file to a
directory when a file with that name already exists in the directory.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">AlreadyInDesiredState</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='ALREADY_IN_DESIRED_STATE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.AlreadyInDesiredState"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">AlreadyInDesiredState</span></code> exception indicates that an attempt to change
the state of a resource or service had no effect because the resource or
service is already in the desired state.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to power on a virtual machine that is already powered on.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">ArgumentLocations</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">primary=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">secondary=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ArgumentLocations"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ArgumentLocations</span></code> class describes which part(s) of the input to the
method caused the exception.</p>
<p>Some types of exceptions are caused by the value of one of the inputs to
the method, possibly due to an interaction with other inputs to the method.
This class is intended to be used as the payload to identify those inputs
when the method reports exceptions like <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidArgument</span></code></a> or
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>primary</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">str</span></code>) – String describing the location of the input that triggered the
exception.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>secondary</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">str</span></code>) –<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> (possibly empty) of strings describing the locations
of other inputs that caused the the primary input to trigger the
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">Canceled</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='CANCELED'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Canceled"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Canceled</span></code> exception indicates that the method canceled itself in
response to an explicit request to do so. Methods being “canceled” for
other reasons (for example the client connection was closed, a time out
occured, or due to excessive resource consumption) should not report this
exception.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>A user is monitoring the progress of the method in a GUI and sees that it
is likely to take longer than he is willing to wait and clicks the cancel
button.</p></li>
<li><p>A user invokes the method using a command-line tool and decides that she
didn’t really want to invoke that method, and presses CTRL-c.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The client’s connection to the server was closed. Reporting an exception
is pointless since the client will not receive the error response because
the connection has been closed.</p></li>
<li><p>The request is taking longer than some amount of time. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TimedOut"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TimedOut"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TimedOut</span></code></a> exception would be reported if the time was specified as
part of the input or is documented in the API contract.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">ConcurrentChange</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='CONCURRENT_CHANGE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ConcurrentChange"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ConcurrentChange</span></code> exception indicates that a data structure, entity,
or resource has been modified since some earlier point in time. Typically
this happens when the client is doing the <em>write</em> portion of a
read-modify-write sequence and indicates that it wants the server to notify
it if the data in the server has changed after it did the <em>read</em>, so that
it can avoid overwriting that change inadvertantly.</p>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">Error</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error</span></code> exception describes theattributes common to all standard
exceptions.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>This exception serves two purposes:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<olclass="arabic simple">
<li><p>It is the exception that clients in many programming languages can catch
to handle all standard exceptions. Typically those clients will display one
or more of the localizable messages from <codeclass="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.messages</span></code> to a human.</p></li>
<li><p>It is the exception that methods can report when they need to report
some exception, but the exception doesn’t fit into any other standard
exception, and in fact the only reasonable way for a client to react to the
exception is to display the message(s) to a human.</p></li>
</ol>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-name descname">Type</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">string</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>Enumeration of all standard errors. Used as discriminator in protocols that
have no standard means for transporting the error type, e.g. REST. This
enumeration was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.</p>
<divclass="admonition note">
<pclass="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This class represents an enumerated type in the interface language
definition. The class contains class attributes which represent the
values in the current version of the enumerated type. Newer versions of
the enumerated type may contain new values. To use new values of the
enumerated type in communication with a server that supports the newer
version of the API, you instantiate this class. See <aclass="reference internal"href="enumeration.html#enumeration-description"><spanclass="std std-ref">enumerated
type description page</span></a>.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><p><strong>string</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">str</span></code>) – String value for the <codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Type</span></code> instance.</p>
<codeclass="sig-name descname">ALREADY_EXISTS</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='ALREADY_EXISTS')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.ALREADY_EXISTS"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.AlreadyExists"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.AlreadyExists"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">AlreadyExists</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">ALREADY_IN_DESIRED_STATE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='ALREADY_IN_DESIRED_STATE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.ALREADY_IN_DESIRED_STATE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.AlreadyInDesiredState"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.AlreadyInDesiredState"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">AlreadyInDesiredState</span></code></a> type. This class
<codeclass="sig-name descname">CANCELED</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='CANCELED')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.CANCELED"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Canceled"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Canceled"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Canceled</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">CONCURRENT_CHANGE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='CONCURRENT_CHANGE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.CONCURRENT_CHANGE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ConcurrentChange"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ConcurrentChange"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ConcurrentChange</span></code></a> type. This class attribute
<codeclass="sig-name descname">ERROR</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='ERROR')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.ERROR"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was added
<codeclass="sig-name descname">FEATURE_IN_USE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='FEATURE_IN_USE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.FEATURE_IN_USE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.FeatureInUse"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.FeatureInUse"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">FeatureInUse</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InternalServerError"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InternalServerError"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InternalServerError</span></code></a> type. This class
<codeclass="sig-name descname">INVALID_ARGUMENT</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='INVALID_ARGUMENT')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.INVALID_ARGUMENT"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidArgument</span></code></a> type. This class attribute
<codeclass="sig-name descname">INVALID_ELEMENT_CONFIGURATION</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='INVALID_ELEMENT_CONFIGURATION')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.INVALID_ELEMENT_CONFIGURATION"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementConfiguration"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementConfiguration"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidElementConfiguration</span></code></a> type. This class
<codeclass="sig-name descname">INVALID_ELEMENT_TYPE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='INVALID_ELEMENT_TYPE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.INVALID_ELEMENT_TYPE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementType"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementType"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidElementType</span></code></a> type. This class
<codeclass="sig-name descname">INVALID_REQUEST</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='INVALID_REQUEST')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.INVALID_REQUEST"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidRequest"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidRequest"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidRequest</span></code></a> type. This class attribute
<codeclass="sig-name descname">NOT_ALLOWED_IN_CURRENT_STATE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='NOT_ALLOWED_IN_CURRENT_STATE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.NOT_ALLOWED_IN_CURRENT_STATE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotAllowedInCurrentState"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotAllowedInCurrentState"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">NotAllowedInCurrentState</span></code></a> type. This class
<codeclass="sig-name descname">NOT_FOUND</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='NOT_FOUND')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.NOT_FOUND"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">NotFound</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">OPERATION_NOT_FOUND</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='OPERATION_NOT_FOUND')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.OPERATION_NOT_FOUND"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.OperationNotFound"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.OperationNotFound"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">OperationNotFound</span></code></a> type. This class attribute
<codeclass="sig-name descname">RESOURCE_BUSY</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='RESOURCE_BUSY')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.RESOURCE_BUSY"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceBusy</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">RESOURCE_INACCESSIBLE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='RESOURCE_INACCESSIBLE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.RESOURCE_INACCESSIBLE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInaccessible"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInaccessible"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceInaccessible</span></code></a> type. This class
<codeclass="sig-name descname">RESOURCE_IN_USE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='RESOURCE_IN_USE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.RESOURCE_IN_USE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceInUse</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ServiceUnavailable</span></code></a> type. This class
<codeclass="sig-name descname">TIMED_OUT</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='TIMED_OUT')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.TIMED_OUT"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TimedOut"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TimedOut"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TimedOut</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">UNABLE_TO_ALLOCATE_RESOURCE</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='UNABLE_TO_ALLOCATE_RESOURCE')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.UNABLE_TO_ALLOCATE_RESOURCE"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnableToAllocateResource"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnableToAllocateResource"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">UnableToAllocateResource</span></code></a> type. This class
<codeclass="sig-name descname">UNAUTHENTICATED</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='UNAUTHENTICATED')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.UNAUTHENTICATED"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unauthenticated</span></code></a> type. This class attribute
<codeclass="sig-name descname">UNAUTHORIZED</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='UNAUTHORIZED')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.UNAUTHORIZED"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthorized"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthorized"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unauthorized</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">UNEXPECTED_INPUT</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='UNEXPECTED_INPUT')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.UNEXPECTED_INPUT"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnexpectedInput"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnexpectedInput"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">UnexpectedInput</span></code></a> type. This class attribute
<codeclass="sig-name descname">UNSUPPORTED</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='UNSUPPORTED')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.UNSUPPORTED"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unsupported"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unsupported"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unsupported</span></code></a> type. This class attribute was
<codeclass="sig-name descname">UNVERIFIED_PEER</code><emclass="property"> = Type(string='UNVERIFIED_PEER')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type.UNVERIFIED_PEER"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Discriminator for the <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnverifiedPeer"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnverifiedPeer"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">UnverifiedPeer</span></code></a> type. This class attribute
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">FeatureInUse</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='FEATURE_IN_USE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.FeatureInUse"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">FeatureInUse</span></code> exception indicates that an action cannot be completed
because a feature is in use.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to disable snapshots on a virtual machine which has a snapshot.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to downgrade a license that has licensed features that are in use.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">FileLocations</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">primary=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">secondary=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.FileLocations"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">FileLocations</span></code> class identifies the file(s) that caused the method
to report the exception.</p>
<p>Some types of exceptions are caused by a problem with one or more files.
This class is intended to be used as the payload to identify those files
when the method reports exceptions like <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">NotFound</span></code></a>. See
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">InternalServerError</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InternalServerError"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InternalServerError</span></code> exception indicates that the server encounters
an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.</p>
<p>This exception is reported by the API infrastructure, so it could occur in
response to the invocation of any method.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The method returns a value whose type doesn’t match the type type the
method says it should return.</p></li>
<li><p>The method reports an exception that is not included in the list of
exceptions the method says that it can report.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">InvalidArgument</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='INVALID_ARGUMENT'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidArgument</span></code> exception indicates that the values received for
one or more parameters are not acceptable.</p>
<p>This exception is reported by the API infrastructure, so it could occur in
response to the invocation of any method. It may also be reported as the
result of method-specific validation.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>A parameter has a value that is not of the expected type.</p></li>
<li><p>A parameter has a value that is not in the required range.</p></li>
<li><p>A parameter has a value that is not one of the specifically allowed
strings.</p></li>
<li><p>One attribute of a class is the tag for a tagged union, and has a
specific value but another attribute of the class that is required to be
specified when the tag has that value is not specified, or another
attribute of the class that is required to be unspecified when the tag has
that value is specified.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to create a new tag in tag category when a tag with the specified
name already exists the tag category. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.AlreadyExists"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.AlreadyExists"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">AlreadyExists</span></code></a> exception
would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Invoke the method to retrieve information about a virtual machine,
passing an id that does not identify an existing virtual machine. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">NotFound</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Attempt to put a virtual machine into a folder that can only contain
hosts. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementType"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementType"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidElementType</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Attempt to attach a SCSI virtual disk to an IDE port. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementType"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementType"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidElementType</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">InvalidElementConfiguration</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='INVALID_ELEMENT_CONFIGURATION'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementConfiguration"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidElementConfiguration</span></code> exception indicates that an attempt to
modify the configuration of an element or a group containing the element
failed due to the configuraton of the element. A typical case is when the
method is am attempt to change the group membership of the element fails,
in which case a configuration change on the element may allow the group
membership change to succeed.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Attempt to move a host with a fault tolerant virtual machine out of a
cluster (i.e. make the host a standalone host).</p></li>
<li><p>Attempt to remove a host from a DRS cluster without putting the host into
maintenance mode.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">InvalidElementType</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='INVALID_ELEMENT_TYPE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidElementType"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidElementType</span></code> exception indicates that the server was unable
to fulfil the request because an element of a specific type cannot be a
member of particular group.</p>
<p>This exception could be reported, for example, if an attempt is made to put
an element into the wrong type of container.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Attempt to put a virtual machine into a folder that can only contain
hosts.</p></li>
<li><p>Attempt to attach a SCSI virtual disk to an IDE port.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>A parameter has a value that is not of the expected type. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidArgument</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">InvalidRequest</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='INVALID_REQUEST'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidRequest"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidRequest</span></code> exception indicates that the request is malformed in
such a way that the server is unable to process it.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The XML in a SOAP request is not well-formed so the server cannot parse
the request.</p></li>
<li><p>The XML in a SOAP request is well-formed but does not match the structure
required by the SOAP specification.</p></li>
<li><p>A JSON-RPC request is not valid JSON.</p></li>
<li><p>The JSON sent in a JSON-RPC request is not a valid JSON-RPC Request
object.</p></li>
<li><p>The Request object from a JSON-RPC request does not match the structure
required by the API infrastructure.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The parameter has a value that is not with the required range. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.InvalidArgument"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvalidArgument</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>The name of the method specified in the request doesn’t not match any
known method. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">NotFound</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Some transport protocols (for example JSON-RPC) include their own mechanism
for reporting these kinds of errors, and the API infrastructure for a
programming language may expose the errors using a language specific
mechanism, so this exception might not be used.</p>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">NotAllowedInCurrentState</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='NOT_ALLOWED_IN_CURRENT_STATE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotAllowedInCurrentState"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">NotAllowedInCurrentState</span></code> exception indicates that the requested
method is not allowed with a resource or service in its current state. This
could be because the method is performing a configuration change that is
not allowed in the current state or because method itself is not allowed in
the current state.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to add a virtual device that cannot be hot plugged to a running
virtual machine.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to upgrade the virtual hardware version for a suspended virtual
machine.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to power off, reset, or suspend a virtual machine that is not
powered on.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to power off a virtual machine that is in the process of being
powered on. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceBusy</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">NotFound</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='NOT_FOUND'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">NotFound</span></code> exception indicates that a specified element could not be
found.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Invoke the method to retrieve information about a virtual machine,
passing an id that does not identify an existing virtual machine.</p></li>
<li><p>Invoke the method to modify the configuration of a virtual nic, passing
an id that does not identify an existing virtual nic in the specified
virtual machine.</p></li>
<li><p>Invoke the method to remove a vswitch, passing an id that does not
identify an existing vswitch.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">OperationNotFound</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='OPERATION_NOT_FOUND'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.OperationNotFound"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">OperationNotFound</span></code> exception indicates that the method specified in
the request could not be found.</p>
<p>Every API request specifies a service identifier and an operation
identifier along with the parameters. If the API infrastructure is unable
to find the requested class or method it reports this exception.</p>
<p>This exception can be reported by the API infrastructure for any method,
but it is specific to the API infrastructure, and should never be reported
by the implementation of any method.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>A client provides an invalid service or operation identifier when
invoking the method using a dynamic interface (for example REST).</p></li>
<li><p>A client invokes the method from a class, but that class has not been
installed.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>A client invokes a task scheduling method, but provides an invalid
service identifier or operation identifier. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.NotFound"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">NotFound</span></code></a> exception
would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">ResourceBusy</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='RESOURCE_BUSY'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceBusy</span></code> exception indicates that the method could not be
completed because a resource it needs is busy.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to power off a virtual machine that is in the process of being
powered on.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to remove a VMFS datastore when there is a virtual machine
registered on any host attached to the datastore. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceInUse</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">ResourceInUse</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='RESOURCE_IN_USE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceInUse</span></code> exception indicates that the method could not be
completed because a resource is in use.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to remove a VMFS datastore when the is a virtual machine
registered on any host attached to the datastore.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to add a virtual switch if the physical network adapter being
bridged is already in use.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to power off a virtual machine that is in the process of being
powered on. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceBusy</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">ResourceInaccessible</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='RESOURCE_INACCESSIBLE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInaccessible"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceInaccessible</span></code> exception indicates that the method could not
be completed because an entity is not accessible.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Attempt to invoke some method on a virtual machine when the virtual
machine’s configuration file is not accessible (for example due to a
storage APD condition).</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Attempt to invoke some method when the server is too busy. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ServiceUnavailable</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Attempt to invoke some method when the server is undergoing maintenance.
The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ServiceUnavailable</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Some method fails to contact VMware Tools running inside the virtual
machine. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ServiceUnavailable</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">ServiceUnavailable</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ServiceUnavailable</span></code> exception indicates that the class is
unavailable.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Attempt to invoke a method when the server is too busy.</p></li>
<li><p>Attempt to invoke a method when the server is undergoing maintenance.</p></li>
<li><p>An method fails to contact VMware Tools running inside the virtual
machine.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>A client provides an invalid service or operation identifier when
invoking the method using a dynamic interface (for example REST). The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.OperationNotFound"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.OperationNotFound"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">OperationNotFound</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>A client invokes the method from the class, but that class has not been
installed. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.OperationNotFound"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.OperationNotFound"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">OperationNotFound</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">StubFactory</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">stub_config</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.StubFactory"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">TimedOut</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='TIMED_OUT'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TimedOut"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TimedOut</span></code> exception indicates that the method did not complete
within the allowed amount of time. The allowed amount of time might be:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>provided by the client as an input parameter.</p></li>
<li><p>a fixed limit of the class implementation that is a documented part of
the contract of the class.</p></li>
<li><p>a configurable limit used by the implementation of the class.</p></li>
<li><p>a dynamic limit computed by the implementation of the class.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The method may or may not complete after the <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TimedOut</span></code> exception was
reported.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The method was unable to complete within the timeout duration specified
by a parameter of the method.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>A server implementation that puts requests into a queue before
dispatching them might delete a request from the queue if it doesn’t get
dispatched within <em>n</em> minutes. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ServiceUnavailable"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ServiceUnavailable</span></code></a> exception
would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">TransientIndication</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">is_transient=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><p><strong>is_transient</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">bool</span></code>) – Indicates that the exception this class is attached to is
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">UnableToAllocateResource</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='UNABLE_TO_ALLOCATE_RESOURCE'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnableToAllocateResource"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">UnableToAllocateResource</span></code> exception indicates that the method failed
because it was unable to allocate or acquire a required resource.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to power on a virtual machine when there are not enough licenses
to do so.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to power on a virtual machine that would violate a resource usage
policy.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to power off a virtual machine that is in the process of being
powered on. A <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceBusy"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceBusy</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to remove a VMFS datastore when the is a virtual machine
registered on any host attached to the datastore. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceInUse</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to add a virtual switch if the physical network adapter being
bridged is already in use. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInUse"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceInUse</span></code></a> exception would be
used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Attempt to invoke some method on a virtual machine when the virtual
machine’s configuration file is not accessible (for example due to a
storage APD condition). The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInaccessible"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.ResourceInaccessible"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResourceInaccessible</span></code></a> exception would
be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">Unauthenticated</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='UNAUTHENTICATED'</em>, <emclass="sig-param">challenge=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unauthenticated</span></code> exception indicates that the method requires
authentication and the user is not authenticated.</p>
<p>API requests may include a security context containing user credentials.
For example, the user credentials could be a SAML token, a user name and
password, or the session identifier for a previously established session.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The SAML token in the request’s security context has expired.</p></li>
<li><p>The user name and password in the request’s security context are invalid.</p></li>
<li><p>The session identifier in the request’s security context identifies a
session that has expired.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The user is authenticated but isn’t authorized to perform the requested
method. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthorized"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthorized"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unauthorized</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>For security reasons, the <codeclass="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.data</span></code> attribute in this exception is
None, and the <codeclass="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.messages</span></code> attribute in this exception does not
disclose which part of the security context is correct or incorrect. For
example the messages would not disclose whether a username or a password is
valid or invalid, but only that a combination of username and password is
invalid.</p>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>challenge</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">str</span></code>) –<p>Indicates the authentication challenges applicable to the target
API provider. It can be used by a client to discover the correct
authentication scheme to use. The exact syntax of the value is
defined by the specific provider, the protocol and authentication
schemes used.</p>
<p>For example, a provider using REST may adhere to the
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">Unauthorized</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='UNAUTHORIZED'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthorized"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unauthorized</span></code> exception indicates that the user is not authorized to
perform the method.</p>
<p>API requests may include a security context containing user credentials.
For example, the user credentials could be a SAML token, a user name and
password, or the session identifier for a previously established session.
Invoking the method may require that the user identified by those
credentials has particular privileges on the method or on one or more
resource identifiers passed to the method.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The method requires that the user have one or more privileges on the
method, but the user identified by the credentials in the security context
does not have the required privileges.</p></li>
<li><p>The method requires that the user have one or more privileges on a
resource identifier passed to the method, but the user identified by the
credentials in the security context does not have the required privileges.</p></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Counterexamples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The SAML token in the request’s security context has expired. A
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unauthenticated</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>The user name and password in the request’s security context are invalid.
The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unauthenticated</span></code></a> exception would be used instead.</p></li>
<li><p>The session identifier in the request’s security context identifies a
session that has expired. The <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unauthenticated"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unauthenticated</span></code></a> exception would be
used instead.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>For security reasons, the <codeclass="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.data</span></code> attribute in this exception is
None, and the <codeclass="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.messages</span></code> attribute in this exception does not
disclose why the user is not authorized to perform the method. For example
the messages would not disclose which privilege the user did not have or
which resource identifier the user did not have the required privilege to
access. The API documentation should indicate what privileges are required.</p>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">UnexpectedInput</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='UNEXPECTED_INPUT'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnexpectedInput"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">UnexpectedInput</span></code> exception indicates that the request contained a
parameter or attribute whose name is not known by the server.</p>
<p>Every method expects parameters with known names. Some of those parameters
may be (or contain) classes, and the method expects those classes to
contain attributes with known names. If the method receives parameters or
attributes with names that is does not expect, this exception may be
reported.</p>
<p>This exception can be reported by the API infrastructure for any method,
but it is specific to the API infrastructure, and should never be reported
by the implementation of any method.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>A client using stubs generated from the interface specification for
version2 of a class invokes the method passing one or more parameters that
were added in version2, but they are communicating with a server that only
supports version1 of the class.</p></li>
<li><p>A client provides an unexpected parameter or attribute name when invoking
the method using a dynamic interface (for example REST).</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">Unsupported</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='UNSUPPORTED'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Unsupported"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Unsupported</span></code> exception indicates that the method is not supported by
the class.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Trying to hot-plug a CPU when the current configuration of the VM does
not support hot-plugging of CPUs.</p></li>
<li><p>Trying to change the memory size to a value that is not within the
acceptable guest memory bounds supported by the virtual machine’s host.</p></li>
</ul>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<emclass="property">exception </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">UnverifiedPeer</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">messages=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">data=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error_type='UNVERIFIED_PEER'</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.UnverifiedPeer"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">UnverifiedPeer</span></code> exception indicates that an attempt to connect to an
unknown or not-yet-trusted endpoint failed because the system was unable to
verify the identity of the endpoint.</p>
<p>Typically the {<codeclass="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.data</span></code> attribute of this error will contain
information that can be presented to a human to allow them to decide
whether to trust the endpoint. If they decide to trust the endpoint, the
request can be resubmitted with an indication that the endpoint should be
trusted.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Examples:</p>
</div></blockquote>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>The client provides an IP address or URL of an endpoint the system should
communicate with using an SSL connection, but the endpoint’s SSL
certificate is self-signed, expired, or otherwise not trustworthy.</p></li>
<li><p>The client provides an IP address of a host the system should communicate
with using ssh, but ssh doesn’t recognize the public key of the host</p></li>
</ul>
<p>. This class was added in vSphere API 6.7.1.</p>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>messages</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.LocalizableMessage</span></code></a>) –<p>Stack of one or more localizable messages for human exception
consumers.</p>
<p>The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes
the exception from the perspective of the method the client
invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the “cause”
of the prior message.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>data</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">vmware.vapi.struct.VapiStruct</span></code> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) –<p>Data to facilitate clients responding to the method reporting a
standard exception to indicating that it was unable to complete
successfully.</p>
<p>Methods may provide data that clients can use when responding to
exceptions. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the
context of the method reporting the exception, different methods
that report the same exception may provide different data in the
exception. The documentation for each each method will describe
what, if any, data it provides for each exception it reports. The
<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.TransientIndication"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">TransientIndication</span></code></a> classes are intended as possible
values for this attribute.
<aclass="reference internal"href="com.vmware.vapi.html#com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"title="com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std_client.DynamicID</span></code></a> may also be useful as
a value for this attribute (although that is not its primary
purpose). Some classes may provide their own specific classes for
use as the value of this attribute when reporting exceptions from
their methods.
Some methods will not set this attribute when reporting exceptions.</p>
</p></li>
<li><p><strong>error_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.errors_client.Error.Type"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">Error.Type</span></code></a>) – Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure
type. This attribute was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be None for compatibility with preceding implementations.</p></li>
<spanid="com-vmware-vapi-std-interposition-client-module"></span><h2>com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client module<aclass="headerlink"href="#module-com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client</span></code> module provides classes that
<p>Information about an interposed request for operation invocation. All
interposers would receive an instance of this structure as an input
parameter.</p>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>service_id</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">str</span></code>) – Fully qualified name of the service which contains the interposed
operation. In canonical format. For example org.example.hello.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>operation_id</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">str</span></code>) – Name of the interposed operation. In canonical format. For example
say_hello.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>operation_input</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">DataValue</span></code>) – Input of the interposed operation.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>user</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.SecurityPrincipal"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.SecurityPrincipal"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">SecurityPrincipal</span></code></a> or <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">None</span></code>) – User which started the interposed operation.
There could be no authentication information. For example when
methods are invoked anonymously.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>groups</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">list</span></code> of <aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.SecurityPrincipal"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.SecurityPrincipal"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">SecurityPrincipal</span></code></a>) – Groups of the user who started the interposed operation. Would be
empty if there is no authentication information.</p></li>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">InvocationResult</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">result_type=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">output=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">error=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.InvocationResult"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>Information about the result from an interposed operation invocation. All
POST interposers will receive an instance of this structure.</p>
<divclass="admonition tip">
<pclass="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The arguments are used to initialize data attributes with the same
names.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><ulclass="simple">
<li><p><strong>result_type</strong> (<aclass="reference internal"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.InvocationResult.ResultType"title="com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.InvocationResult.ResultType"><codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">InvocationResult.ResultType</span></code></a>) – Type of the invocation result.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>output</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">DataValue</span></code>) – Normal result value.
This attribute is optional and it is only relevant when the value
of <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">resultType</span></code> is
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-name descname">ResultType</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">string</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.InvocationResult.ResultType"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<p>This class represents an enumerated type in the interface language
definition. The class contains class attributes which represent the
values in the current version of the enumerated type. Newer versions of
the enumerated type may contain new values. To use new values of the
enumerated type in communication with a server that supports the newer
version of the API, you instantiate this class. See <aclass="reference internal"href="enumeration.html#enumeration-description"><spanclass="std std-ref">enumerated
type description page</span></a>.</p>
</div>
<dlclass="field-list simple">
<dtclass="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
<ddclass="field-odd"><p><strong>string</strong> (<codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">str</span></code>) – String value for the <codeclass="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">ResultType</span></code> instance.</p>
<codeclass="sig-name descname">ERROR_RESULT</code><emclass="property"> = ResultType(string='ERROR_RESULT')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.InvocationResult.ResultType.ERROR_RESULT"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<codeclass="sig-name descname">NORMAL_RESULT</code><emclass="property"> = ResultType(string='NORMAL_RESULT')</em><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.InvocationResult.ResultType.NORMAL_RESULT"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">SecurityPrincipal</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">name=None</em>, <emclass="sig-param">domain=None</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.SecurityPrincipal"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<emclass="property">class </em><codeclass="sig-prename descclassname">com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.</code><codeclass="sig-name descname">StubFactory</code><spanclass="sig-paren">(</span><emclass="sig-param">stub_config</em><spanclass="sig-paren">)</span><aclass="headerlink"href="#com.vmware.vapi.std.interposition_client.StubFactory"title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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