Minimal CLI client for xapi rpc calls. The output is in json, so it can be piped to jq or other json tools for further filtering. For example you can get the uuid and name_label of all VMs with: bash xapirpc VM get_all_records | jq '.[]|select(.is_a_template==false)|{uuid, name_label}'

There are a few flags available for customisation: bash $ xapirpc --help Minimal xapi xmlrpc CLI client USAGE: xapirpc [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <class> <method> [args]... FLAGS: --compact Output the result as non-prettified json --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information OPTIONS: -h, --host <host> XenServer host. Can be passed with the XAPI_HOST env variable. -p, --pass <pass> XenServer host user password. Can be passed with the XAPI_PASSWORD env variable. -u, --user <user> XenServer host user name. Can be passed with the XAPI_USER env variable. ARGS: <class> Case sensitive value for the xapi class <method> Case sensitive value for the xapi method <args>... Ordered list of arguments for the call (if any). Do not pass a session.

The host, user, and pass value can be manually configured by creating $HOME/.config/xapirpc/config.prefs.json and adding them in a json object. E.g. bash $ cat $HOME/.config/xapirpc/config.prefs.json {"user":"my_user_name","pass":"my_pass"}

To try it, clone this repository and build with cargo build --release or install it using cargo install xapirpc --force.

The crate exports also a xapirpc crate that exposes some potentially useful helpers to create a xapi client. The executable provides an example of use.

Acknowledgements

Thanks:

• @gaborigloi for porting the library to quicli
• @Pistahh for fixing the jq example and comments on the code