Identifying the author of a Virtual Service

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)
• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

Have a virtual service deployed in a Virtual Service Environment (VSE), how may it be identified who created it?

 

Environment

All supported DevTest releases and platforms.

Resolution

The information required is contained within the Virtual Service Model (vsm) file that is contained within the service. 

A virtual service is deployed as a "mar" file, which is effectively a zipped stand-alone DevTest project. The mar file for any service can be downloaded by clicking upon it in Server Console, and then unzipped to obtain the original files used to create the service.

Using the webservices-vs example that is provided with the demo server, the webservices-vs.vsm is an XML formatted plain text file that may be examined using any text editor. Near the beginning of this file is a <meta> section that contains the information required:-

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<VSModel name="webservices-vs" version="5">

<meta>

   <create version="8.0.0" buildNumber="8.0.0.1277" author="admin" date="11/05/2014" host="servername" />

   <lastEdited version="8.0.0" buildNumber="8.0.0.1277" author="admin" date="11/05/2014" host="servername" />

</meta>