Workflow to automatically approve your VCF Automation Inbox pending approvals

18 Dec 2024Updated 1 Nov 20261 min read160 views

A quick way to clear every pending approval in the VCF Automation Service Broker Inbox. An Orchestrator workflow pages through the approvals API to collect PENDING items, then approves each one in a loop with a REST call.

Mayank Goyal

In this article

Just a very quick post on how to approve all the pending approvals in your Aria\VCF Automation Service broker Inbox.

Download this package which contains an orchestrator workflow to get you started. The process is fairly simple. Just make a REST call to get all the pending approvals and then make calls to approve them in a loop.

📦 Workflow Package Link

Scripts

Get all pending approvals

const opMethod = "GET";

var pendingApprovals = [];

status = "PENDING";
var opUrl = "/approval/api/approvals?requestState="+status+"&apiVersion=2020-11-01";

var opResponse;
var responseJson;
var content;
var count;
var page = 0
var headers = new Properties();
headers.put("Authorization", "Bearer " + cspAuthToken);

do {
	opResponse = System.getModule("com.vmware.pso.rest").executeTransientRESTOperation(
	    cspBaseUrl,null,null,opMethod,opUrl,null,headers,null,null);	

	if (opResponse.statusCode >= 400) {
	    throw "Failed to get cloud accounts (" + opResponse.statusCode + " Error). Details: " + opResponse.responseString;
	}
	
	//System.debug(opResponse.responseString);
	responseJson = JSON.parse(opResponse.responseString);
	var 
	count = responseJson.numberOfElements;
	//System.error(responseJson.pageable.pageNumber)
	var totalPages = responseJson.totalPages
	content = responseJson.content;
	pendingApprovals = pendingApprovals.concat(content);
	page++
	//System.error(pendingApprovals.length)
	opUrl = "/approval/api/approvals?requestState="+status+"&page="+page+"&apiVersion=2020-11-01";
	//opUrl += "&offset="+pendingApprovals.length// + pendingApprovals.length;
	//System.debug("Count so far: " + pendingApprovals.length);
} while (page <= totalPages)

return pendingApprovals;

Approve a pending approval at highest level

const opMethod = "POST";
const opUrl = "/approval/api/approvals/action";
const contentType = "application/json"



var headers = new Properties();
headers.put("Authorization", "Bearer " + cspAuthToken);

var contentJson = {"itemId":approvalId,"action":"APPROVE","comment":"Automated approval via Aria Orchestrator","fullApproval":true,"currentLevelApproval":false}
var contentJson = JSON.stringify(contentJson)
System.log(contentJson);
var opResponse  = System.getModule("com.vmware.pso.rest").executeTransientRESTOperation(
    cspBaseUrl,null,null,opMethod,opUrl,null,headers,contentType,contentJson);

if (opResponse.statusCode >= 400) {
    throw "Failed to patch deployment (" + opResponse.statusCode + " Error). Details: " + opResponse.responseString;
}
return opResponse.responseString;