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

To change the owner of a Disk, VApp, or Catalog object, you must be a system administrator or an organization administrator.
To change the owner of a vAppTemplate object, you must be a system administrator, organization administrator, or Catalog Author.

Procedure

Retrieve the Owner element from the object.
This element includes a reference to the current owner and an edit URL you can use to change the owner. This request retrieves the owner of a vApp.
```
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/vApp/vapp-7/owner
```
Modify the Owner element to specify a different User.
The user must be a member of the organization that contains the object.
Note: You cannot modify the Owner of a Media object.
To change the owner, make a PUT request to the Owner element's rel="edit" URL and supply an Owner element in the request body.
The User element in the Owner element references the new owner. See Change the Owner of a vApp Template or vApp.

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>

Response:

204 No Content