Minimal CLI client for xapi rpc calls. The ouptu is in json, so can be piped to jq or other json tools for further filtering. For example you can get the uuid and name__label of all the VMs with:

xapirpc VM get_all_records | jq '.[]|select(is_a_template==false)|{uuid, name_label}'

There are a few optional flags available to customise the usage:

xapirpc --help
Minimal xapi xmlrpc CLI client
CLI interface to interrogate an instance of XenServer via xmlrpc

USAGE:
    xapirpc [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <CLASS> <METHOD> [ARGS]...

FLAGS:
        --compact    Output the result as non-prettified json.
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
        --host <HOST>        XenServer host. Can be passed with the HOST env variable. [env:XAPI_HOST: ]
    -p, --pass <PASSWORD>    XenServer host user password. Can be passed with the XAPI_PASSWORD env variable.
                             [env:XAPI_PASSWORD: ]
    -u, --user <USER>        XenServer host user name. Can be passed with the XAPI_USER env variable. [env:XAPI_USER: ]

ARGS:
    <CLASS>      Case sensitive value for the xapi class.
    <METHOD>     Case sensitive value for the xapi method.
    <ARGS>...    Ordered list of arguments for the call (if any). Do not pass a session.

The host, user and pass value can be manually configured by creating

$HOME/.config/xapirpc/config.prefs.json

and adding them in a json object. E.g.

$ cat $HOME/.config/xapirpc/config.prefs.json
{"user":"my_user_name","pass":"my_pass"}

To try it, clone this repository and build with cargo build --release or install it using cargo install xapirpc --force.