get_firewall_rules_for_a_vsi.go
get_firewall_rules_for_a_vsi.go
/*
Get the associated Firewall's rules for a vsi.
Important manual pages:
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/getFirewallServiceComponent
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Network_Component_Firewall/GetRules
License: http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/License
Author: SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. <sldn@softlayer.com>
*/
package main
import (
"fmt"
"encoding/json"
"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/session"
"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/services"
)
func main() {
// SoftLayer API username and key
username := "set me"
apikey := "set me"
// The id of Virtual server you wish to retrieve it firewall rules
vsiId := 33051333 //24589535
// Create SoftLayer API session
sess := session.New(username, apikey)
// Get SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest and SoftLayer_Network_Component_Firewall services
guestService := services.GetVirtualGuestService(sess)
firewallService := services.GetNetworkComponentFirewallService(sess)
// Call to getFirewallServiceComponent() method to get the firewall object
firewall, err := guestService.Id(vsiId).GetFirewallServiceComponent()
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("\n Unable to get firewall component from VSI:\n - %s\n", err)
return
}
// Call to getRules() method in order to retrieve all firewall rules.
rules, err := firewallService.Id(*firewall.Id).GetRules()
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("\n Unable to get firewall rules:\n - %s\n", err)
return
}
// Following helps to print the result in json format.
for _, rule := range rules {
jsonFormat, jsonErr := json.Marshal(rule)
if jsonErr != nil {
fmt.Println(jsonErr)
return
}
fmt.Println(string(jsonFormat))
}
}