Quick post to share a discovery I made when playing with the NSX APIs. Specifically I’m talking about the flowstats call and the fact that it is wrongly documented on all versions of the NSX API Guide available at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/nsx_pubs.html and this drove me mad for some time before I figured out what the problem was. I must thank my colleague Richard Renardson as he effectivelty shed light on this issue!
Version 6.0.4 includes /app in the endpoint and what is shown as Request body is instead the Response body
Version 6.1 doesn’t include /app and still refers to Request body
Version 6.2 doesn’t include /app but the have (rightly) replaced Request with Response.
Long story short: the /app before /flow is still required on all version, from 6.0 to 6.2 and trying without would result in an “HTTP Status 404” error
Without /app
and that’s with the /app
I hope someone at VMware out there reads this article and get it sorted because I found it extremely frustrating! Not to mention the time I’ve lost troubleshooting something completely unnecessary! #meh
Thought of the day
Wouldn’t it be great if we had an auto-generated built-in API documentation, instead of maintaining a set of documents manually? It’s called #Automation, you know VMware? Just saying!
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