Parameters for LocalLB.VirtualServer.create

Mike. sorry for the confusion. On most of our methods that take arrays, we expect you to pass equal size arrays for all the parameters. For the VirtualServer's create method, it looks like this:

 

 

 LocalLB::VirtualServer::create(
    in Common::VirtualServerDefinition [] definitions,
    in String [] wildmasks,
    in LocalLB::VirtualServer::VirtualServerResource [] resources,
    in LocalLB::VirtualServer::VirtualServerProfile [] [] profiles
);

 

 

Each of the parameters take an array of values, the first dimension for each virtual server. In the case of the the "profiles" parameter, it is a 2-D array. The first dimension for the virtual, and the second for a list of profiles for that given virtual.

 

 

The server code loops through the parameters but assumes that you are passing in an equal array size for each of them. For instance, if you passed in more wildmasks than you did definitions, it would ignore the extra wildmasks. The code essentially takes the value of the lowest size of the parameters and ignores the rest. When you pass in a null value (array size 0) for the resources value, the server code is treating this like a no-op procedure.

 

 

To get this to work, you must supply the four parameters. I believe the "optional" section in the documentation is referring to the profiles parameter where you can choose to supply, or not, additional profiles for the virtual you are creating.

 

 

Here's an example I wrote a while back that uses PowerShell to create a virtual server.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.PsProvisionVEForLocalDev.ashx

 

 

Hope this helps...

 

 

-Joe

 

HI Joe,

 

 

Thanks for your response and the supplied examples. It makes sense that the server side methods expect the arrays passed to be balanced. I can add code to make sure this is correct on the client side.

 

 

Mike

Great, glad to help!

 

 

-Joe