Get-VMCSDDC doesn't handle SDDC names with special characters

[nthaler-mit]

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Quoted SDDC Name w/o character escape:

> Connect-NSXTProxy -RefreshToken XXXXX -OrgName"M5 EA - MYORG(Free!)"-SDDCName"ORG-VMC-VA-EA-M5"
A server error occurred: 'com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized': . Check $Error[0].Exception.ServerError for more details.
At /Users/User/Powershell/VMware.VMC.NSXT.psm1:31 char:9
+         $sddc = $sddcService.get($orgId,$sddcId)
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (:) [], CisServerException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core.Types.V1.CisServerException
 
This is not an NSX-T based SDDC

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Quoted SDDC Name with character escape:

>  Connect-NSXTProxy-RefreshToken  XXXXXXXX -OrgName"M5 EA - MYORG \(Free\!\)"-SDDCName"ORG-VMC-VA-EA-M5"
                                                                                                                                                                           headers                                Server                                                                                                                              -------                                ------                                                                                                                              {Accept, Content-Type, csp-auth-token} https://nsx-XXXXX.rp.vmwarevmc.com/vmc/reverse-proxy/api/orgs/XXX/sddcs/5XXXX

[alanrenouf]

Did you try single quotes?

[nthaler-mit]

Hi Alan,

No luck. Also, the error message is a bit confusing.

> Connect-NSXTProxy -RefreshToken  XXXXX -OrgName 'M5 EA - ORG(Free!)' -SDDCName ORG-VMC-VA-EA-M5                                                                                                        
A server error occurred: 'com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized': . Check $Error[0].Exception.ServerError for more details.
At /Users/USER/Powershell/VMware.VMC.NSXT.psm1:31 char:9
+         $sddc = $sddcService.get($orgId,$sddcId)
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (:) [], CisServerException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core.Types.V1.CisServerException
 

This is not an NSX-T based SDDC](url)

[alanrenouf]

And your using the refresh token from that Org right? The error is unauthorized.

[nthaler-mit]

Hi Alan,

That's correct, I have a Refresh Token for the proper org, and the error doesn't show up, within the same powercli session, if I repeat the command but with the open and close parens and bang escaped in the SDDC name.

It appears that the unauthorized error is spurious in this case.

Here's an example, in the same session, using the Get-VMCSDDC commandlet directly...

PS /Users/USER> Connect-VmcServer -RefreshToken XXXX                                                                      

Server                         User                          
------                         ----                          
vmc.vmware.com                 [email protected]          

PS /Users/USER> Get-VMCSDDC                                                  

cmdlet Get-VMCSDDC at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Org: M5 EA - ORG \(Free\!\)


Help                 : @{Documentation=; updated=; user_id=; 
                       updated_by_user_id=; created=; version=; 
                       updated_by_user_name=; user_name=; id=; name=; 
                       sddc_state=; expiration_date=; org_id=; sddc_type=; 
                       provider=; account_link_state=; resource_config=}
user_id              : XXXXX
user_name            : XXXXX
created              : 9/11/18 6:10:28 PM
version              : 44
id                   : XXXXX
updated_by_user_id   : XXXXX
updated_by_user_name : [email protected]
updated              : 9/19/18 7:30:45 PM
name                 : ORG-VMC-VA-EA-M5
provider             : AWS

... Compared to not being able to find the SDDC name at all if I use single or double quotes (no escaped characters)

PS /Users/USER> Get-VMCSDDC                                                  
cmdlet Get-VMCSDDC at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Org: 'M5 EA - ORG(Free!)'

// No return data

PS /Users/USER> Get-VMCSDDC                                                  
cmdlet Get-VMCSDDC at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Org: "M5 EA - ORG(Free!)"

// No return data

[alanrenouf]

Thanks Nathan, will check it out