In one of comments the following code did not set a task description (shown in vSphere Client in Details column):
LocalizableMessage lm = new LocalizableMessage(); lm.setMessage(“Hello World”); myTask.getTaskInfo().setDescription(lm);
The problem is in missing key property of the newly created LocalizableMessage: it must be assigned from the task itself.
This is how it’s supposed to be done (Java):
LocalizableMessage lm = new LocalizableMessage(); lm.setKey(myTask.getTaskInfo().getKey()); lm.setMessage(“Hello World”); myTask.getTaskInfo().setDescription(lm);
This is an example in C# (taskInfo is known value of Vim.TaskInfo type):
LocalizableMessage myDetailMessage = new Vim25Api.LocalizableMessage() { key = taskInfo.key, message = "my details" }; connection.Service.SetTaskDescription(taskInfo.task, myDetailMessage);