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

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