View or Change the Owner of an Object
You can view the owner of a VApp, VAppTemplate, Disk, or Media object by making a GET request to the object's owner link. If you have adequate rights, you can change the owner of a Disk, VApp object, or VAppTemplate, but not that of a Media object.
The initial owner of a VApp, VAppTemplate, Catalog, Disk, or Media object is the user who created it. Ownership is expressed in an Owner element that the object representation contains. This element includes a User element that references the owner. Object-specific rights to change ownership are included in several predefined roles. See Predefined Roles and Their Rights.
Starting with VMware Cloud Director API 31.0, you can change the owner of a vAppTemplate object.
Prerequisites
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To change the owner of a Disk, VApp, or Catalog object, you must be a system administrator or an organization administrator.
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To change the owner of a vAppTemplate object, you must be a system administrator, organization administrator, or Catalog Author.
Procedure
Example: Change the Owner of a vApp Template or vApp
- Request for changing the
owner of a vApp template:
PUT https://vcloud.example.com/api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-44/owner Content-type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.owner+xml;version=31.0 ... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Owner xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"> <User type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml" href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/user/120" /> </Owner>
- Request for changing the
owner of a vApp:
PUT https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vapp-7/owner Content-type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.owner+xml ... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Owner xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"> <User type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml" href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/user/120" /> </Owner>
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