Filters are not applied to Aria Automation catalog API requests

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• The filters documented below in the swagger api documentation are not respected when applied to api requests for the Aria Automation catalog service API.

/catalog/api/items?$filter=startswith(name, 'Act')
/catalog/api/items?$filter=toupper(name) eq 'ACTIVATE'
/catalog/api/items?$filter=substringof('renameVM', name)
/catalog/api/items?$filter=name eq 'ABCD'

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.x

Resolution

The issue is pending a resolution

Workaround:

To workaround the issue use the search parameter in the api request
https://<AriaAutomaitonFQDN>/catalog/api/items?search=<SearchString>

For example the below GET request will return all catalog items which match the string 'windows'
https://<AriaAutomaitonFQDN/catalog/api/items?search=windows