Using vWLAN APIs

Make sure the URL looks something like this.

curl -i -H "Accept:application/xml" -H "Content-Type:application/xml" -X DELETE -k -u daniel@adtran.com:password https://localhost:3000/internalusers/3?active_domain_name="office"

I apologize in advance if I misunderstood your question, but you cannot pull specific fields directly from the UI. You would have to pull the whole list of active users and parse that out.

Maybe we can still help though. I tend towards Python, and I request JSON from the API. The reason being that JSON format translates directly to Python lists and dictionaries. First off, use these HTML headers.

HEADERS = {

        'Accept': 'application/json',

        'Content-Type': 'application/json'

    }

The following code snippet is a method from a larger class which has some defined cleanup functions, so it won't translate directly into other code, but you can perhaps see that what I do is pull the active_user_statuses resource and return a list of individual statuses.

def all_user_status(self):

        """Returns a Python list of active user statuses."""

        # Statuses will be returned as a list of dictionaries.

        # Note that the vWLAN API cannot always process this request as there

        # is a lot of information that gets returned.

        active_user_statuses = []

        for status in self.get('active_user_statuses', self.name):

            if status == 'error':

                msg = 'Error: vWLAN API was unable to process this request'

                active_user_statuses.append(msg)

            else:

                status = self.convert_values(status['active_user_status'])

                active_user_statuses.append(status)

        return active_user_statuses

Now, to answer your question, here's an example of how what I do.

>>> import vwlan

>>> d = vwlan.Domain(server_host, server_admin, admin_password, domain_name)

>>> for status in d.all_user_status():

...     if 'name' in status:

...             print status['name']

...     if 'host_name' in status:

...             print status['host_name']

...     print status['ipaddr']

...

user01

user01Phone5s

10.5.2.170

>>>

tl;dr: You need to parse the output returned from the API call, and look for name, host_name, and ipaddr.

There are two things you can try.

1. Make sure you include the active_domain_name parameter.
2. Remove the encapsulating locations tag.

Since you are posting to the locations page anyways, you don't need those outer tags. Your URL should look something like this.

https://<server>:3000/locations?active_domain_name="default"

You can also use the active_domain_id if you happen to know the ID, but in most cases you would not have that data point.

Your data in XML or JSON will look like this.

<location><name>WIFI0</name><vlan type="integer">1000</vlan><cidr>100.64.0.0/21</cidr></location>

{"location" : {"name": "WIFI0", "vlan": 1000, "cidr": "100.64.0.0/21"}}

One thing you might consider is manually creating a Location, then use the GET method to pull that data from the system. You can then make sure you have all the formatting correct. Also note that when you create an item you use a POST (which you have correctly done) and you will not include an ID. So when you GET the data, you will see an ID. You do not need to set that when you create a new item.