ovfparse

Project: ovfparse

Website: http://github.com/ruby-ovf/ovfparse License: GPLv3 Mailing list: [e-mail] Source Code: git://github.com/ruby-ovf/ovfparse.git

== Requirements

• ruby
• net/ftp
• net/http
• net/https
• nokogiri xml parser (native gem)

== Install

From inside your ovfparse directory: $ rake gem $ cd pkg $ gem install ovfparse[-version]

Or from RubyGems: $ gem install ovfparse

=== Example1

uri = "file://../test_files" vmRepo = VmRepository.create(uri) #use factory method to get repo class puts "\n\n****************************\n" puts "protocol: " + vmRepo.protocol + "\n" puts "url: " + vmRepo.url + "\n" puts "uri: " + vmRepo.uri + "\n" puts vmRepo.fetch #shows all the packages available at the repo

=== Example2

use factory method to get correct package type

package = VmPackage.create("http://ambrosia/repo/someOVF.ovf")

retrieve package

package.fetch

spit out package xml

puts package.xml

=== Example3

use factory method to get correct package type

package = VmPackage.create("http://ambrosia/repo/someOVF.ovf")

retrieve package

package.fetch

spit out specific xml section

puts package.ProductSection

== Useful tips

'method_missing' is implemented to return xml nodes of the section that is named like the missing method. For example, if your xml has a section called some data you can simply request the object through any of the following methods:

node = package.first_name() node = package.first_name node = package.FirstName() node = package.FirstName