The now deprecated versions had to return JSON object as per RFC7159 e.g. This is especially significant for resource creation APIs that now return string literal identifiers e.g. Responses from the new REST APIs benefit RFC 8259 and deliver only the semantically important JSON payload without the value wrapper that was needed in the older APIs. New REST APIs render maps as simple JSON objects. The new REST APIs improves the usability aspect of the REST APIs. You can toggle in between new and deprecated APIs labels to get the respective APIs information.Īlternately, visit to find the deprecated APIs and their replacement. You can go to the developer center and check out for deprecated labels against respective APIs.
Starting from vSphere 7.0 Update 2, You can get the list of deprecated APIs via vCenter UI. VSphere Automation SDKs and CLIs will not be impacted. No impact to vSphere Automation SDK and CLIs.We intend to remove it only after 2 major vSphere releases, also subject to customer feedback. We are not removing the old REST APIs or their support. There is no immediate impact out of this change as the old REST APIs will continue to work. The old REST APIs are still available along with the new REST APIs and will continue to work as expected. The new REST APIs are served under /api instead of /rest. We have revamped all the old REST APIs and replaced those with the new REST API. Below are some of the details which will help you understand the scope of this change. However, we encourage our customers and partners to replace old REST APIs with new REST APIs. These are now replaced with the new REST /api. With the release of vSphere 7 Update 2, VMware announces the deprecation of old REST APIs. Starting from vSphere 7, REST APIs are served under /api and referred to as new REST APIs. All REST APIs from 6.0 to 6.7 were served under /rest and referred to as old REST APIs. Since then, we have expanded the API coverage by introducing new REST APIs for vSphere. VMware introduced the REST APIs with the release of vSphere 6.0.