changelog

Add object.VirtualNicManager wrapper
Add object.HostVsanSystem wrapper
Add object.HostSystem methods: EnterMaintenanceMode, ExitMaintenanceMode, Disconnect, Reconnect
Add finder.Folder method
Add object.Common.Destroy method
Add object.ComputeResource.Reconfigure method
Add license.AssignmentManager wrapper
Add object.HostFirewallSystem wrapper
Add object.DiagnosticManager wrapper
Add LoginExtensionByCertificate support
Add object.ExtensionManager

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Update to vim25/6.0 API
Stop returning children from ManagedObjectList

Change the ManagedObjectList function in the find package to only return the managed objects specified by the path argument and not their children. The original behavior was used by govc's ls command and is now available in the newly added function ManagedObjectListChildren.
Add retry functionality to vim25 package
Change finder functions to no longer take varargs

The find package had functions to return a list of objects, given a variable number of patterns. This makes it impossible to distinguish which patterns produced results and which ones didn't.

In particular for govc, where multiple arguments can be passed from the command line, it is useful to let the user know which ones produce results and which ones don't.

To evaluate multiple patterns, the user should call the find functions multiple times (either serially or in parallel).
Make optional boolean fields pointers (vim25/types).

False is the zero value of a boolean field, which means they are not serialized if the field is marked "omitempty". If the field is a pointer instead, the zero value will be the nil pointer, and both true and false values are serialized.

Prior to this version the API of this library was in flux.

Notable changes w.r.t. the state of this library before March 2015 are:

All functions that may execute a request take a context.Context parameter.
The vim25 package contains a minimal client implementation.
The property collector and its convenience functions live in the property package.