Introduction

By now you are aware of the importance of plugins and how they expand the capabilities of Orchestrator. The next parts of the book will focus on plugins that were firstly touched upon in Chapter 9, Essential Plugins, where we discussed some of the very essential plugins. Here, we will go over all the plugins that are pre-installed in Orchestrator, while future chapters will show additional plugins and then finish on the vCenter plugin, which will round off the possibilities for expansion.

Dealing with return values

We have already had a look at the return values of the REST plugin, but there are also the return values of the SOAP and PowerShell plugin to look at. All of them are a bit more complex than just a string. A lot of the return values are either JSON, XML, or Arrays of Properties. In the JavaScript complex variables recipe in Chapter 6, Advanced Programming, we showcased how to harness them.

The most important thing to figure out is the information you really need for...