text: /*
  Copyright (c) 2015 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  
  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at
  
      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  
  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
  */
  
  package mo
  
  import (
  	"context"
  	"fmt"
  
  	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/soap"
  	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/types"
  )
  
  // Ancestors returns the entire ancestry tree of a specified managed object.
  // The return value includes the root node and the specified object itself.
  func Ancestors(ctx context.Context, rt soap.RoundTripper, pc, obj types.ManagedObjectReference) ([]ManagedEntity, error) {
  	ospec := types.ObjectSpec{
  		Obj: obj,
  		SelectSet: []types.BaseSelectionSpec{
  			&types.TraversalSpec{
  				SelectionSpec: types.SelectionSpec{Name: "traverseParent"},
  				Type:          "ManagedEntity",
  				Path:          "parent",
  				Skip:          types.NewBool(false),
  				SelectSet: []types.BaseSelectionSpec{
  					&types.SelectionSpec{Name: "traverseParent"},
  				},
  			},
  			&types.TraversalSpec{
  				SelectionSpec: types.SelectionSpec{},
  				Type:          "VirtualMachine",
  				Path:          "parentVApp",
  				Skip:          types.NewBool(false),
  				SelectSet: []types.BaseSelectionSpec{
  					&types.SelectionSpec{Name: "traverseParent"},
  				},
  			},
  		},
  		Skip: types.NewBool(false),
  	}
  
  	pspec := []types.PropertySpec{
  		{
  			Type:    "ManagedEntity",
  			PathSet: []string{"name", "parent"},
  		},
  		{
  			Type:    "VirtualMachine",
  			PathSet: []string{"parentVApp"},
  		},
  	}
  
  	req := types.RetrieveProperties{
  		This: pc,
  		SpecSet: []types.PropertyFilterSpec{
  			{
  				ObjectSet: []types.ObjectSpec{ospec},
  				PropSet:   pspec,
  			},
  		},
  	}
  
  	var ifaces []interface{}
  	err := RetrievePropertiesForRequest(ctx, rt, req, &ifaces)
  	if err != nil {
  		return nil, err
  	}
  
  	var out []ManagedEntity
  
  	// Build ancestry tree by iteratively finding a new child.
  	for len(out) < len(ifaces) {
  		var find types.ManagedObjectReference
  
  		if len(out) > 0 {
  			find = out[len(out)-1].Self
  		}
  
  		// Find entity we're looking for given the last entity in the current tree.
  		for _, iface := range ifaces {
  			me := iface.(IsManagedEntity).GetManagedEntity()
  
  			if me.Name == "" {
  				// The types below have their own 'Name' field, so ManagedEntity.Name (me.Name) is empty.
  				// We only hit this case when the 'obj' param is one of these types.
  				// In most cases, 'obj' is a Folder so Name isn't collected in this call.
  				switch x := iface.(type) {
  				case Network:
  					me.Name = x.Name
  				case DistributedVirtualSwitch:
  					me.Name = x.Name
  				case DistributedVirtualPortgroup:
  					me.Name = x.Name
  				case OpaqueNetwork:
  					me.Name = x.Name
  				default:
  					// ManagedEntity always has a Name, if we hit this point we missed a case above.
  					panic(fmt.Sprintf("%#v Name is empty", me.Reference()))
  				}
  			}
  
  			if me.Parent == nil {
  				// Special case for VirtualMachine within VirtualApp,
  				// unlikely to hit this other than via Finder.Element()
  				switch x := iface.(type) {
  				case VirtualMachine:
  					me.Parent = x.ParentVApp
  				}
  			}
  
  			if me.Parent == nil {
  				out = append(out, me)
  				break
  			}
  
  			if *me.Parent == find {
  				out = append(out, me)
  				break
  			}
  		}
  	}
  
  	return out, nil
  }
  