Lists all instances on an account, prompts you to enter an ID for one of them. Creates an image template from this instance, and loops through all templates on an account until it finds one with a matching transaction id.

images.rb

require './api.rb'
require 'date'
slapi = AuthApi.new


#api.rb and slapi are used in another file to handle my connection to the SoftLayer API.
#Feel free to include that information in this file if you wish.

begin

$acct_service = SoftLayer::Service.new("SoftLayer_Account",
        :username => slapi.name,
        :api_key => slapi.key)

cci_service = SoftLayer::Service.new("SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest",
        :username => slapi.name,
        :api_key => slapi.key)


virtlist = $acct_service.getVirtualGuests()

virtlist.each do |virt|
        puts "%s - %s" % [virt["fullyQualifiedDomainName"], virt["id"]]
end
puts "Enter an ID: "
virtId = gets.chomp.to_i
puts "You selected %s" % [virtId]


now = Time.now.strftime("%d/%m/%Y %H:%M")
templateName = "RHanson - #{now}"
cci_ref = cci_service.object_with_id(virtId)
block_devices = cci_ref.getBlockDevices()
cci_ref.createArchiveTransaction(
        templateName,
        [{"id" => block_devices[0]['id']}],
        "Template capture from #{virtId} at #{now}",
        )

activeTxn = cci_ref.getActiveTransaction()
txnId = activeTxn["id"]
puts "Transaction #{txnId} created!"


for i in 1..21
        puts "Attempt ##{i}"
        puts "Sleeping 10 seconds..."
        sleep(10)
        templateMask = {
                "blockDeviceTemplateGroups" => {
                        "id" => "",
                        "name" => "",
                        "note" => "",
                        "transactionId" => "",
                        "createDate" => "",
                        "parent" => "",
                        "globalIdentifier" => "",
                },
        }

        imageTemplates = $acct_service.object_mask(templateMask).getBlockDeviceTemplateGroups()
        imageTemplates.each do |template|
                if template['transactionId'] == txnId
                        puts "====="
                        puts "Found our template!"
                                                puts "ID: %s" % [template['id']]
                        puts "Name: %s" % [template['name']]
                        puts "Note: %s" % [template['note']]
                        puts "Transaction ID: %s" % [template['transactionId']]
                        puts "Creation Date: %s" % [template['createDate']]
                        puts "GUID: %s" % [template['parent']['globalIdentifier']]
                        puts "====="
                        exit
                end
        end

end

end