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2. vapi
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## vapi std errors: invalid element configuration

The `invalid_element_configuration` error indicates that an attempt to modify the configuration of an element or a group containing the element failed due to the configuraton of the element. A typical case is when the operation is am attempt to change the group membership of the element fails, in which case a configuration change on the element may allow the group membership change to succeed.

Examples:

- Attempt to move a host with a fault tolerant virtual machine out of a cluster (i.e. make the host a standalone host).
- Attempt to remove a host from a DRS cluster without putting the host into maintenance mode.

### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"type": "com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.invalid_element_configuration",
"value": {
"data": {},
"messages": [
{
"args": [
"string",
"string"
],
"default_message": "string",
"id": "string"
},
{
"args": [
"string",
"string"
],
"default_message": "string",
"id": "string"
}
]
}
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Error xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/vapi/rest/base" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<value>
<data>
</data>
<messages-array>
<array-item>
<default_message>string</default_message>
<id>string</id>
<args-array>
<array-item>string</array-item>
<array-item>string</array-item>
</args-array>
</array-item>
<array-item>
<default_message>string</default_message>
<id>string</id>
<args-array>
<array-item>string</array-item>
<array-item>string</array-item>
</args-array>
</array-item>
</messages-array>
</value>
<type>com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.invalid_element_configuration</type>
</ns0:Error>

#### Attributes:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
Required
messages | localizable_message[] | Stack of one or more localizable messages for human error consumers. The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes the error from the perspective of the operation the client invoked. Each subsequent message in the stack describes the "cause" of the prior message.
Optional
data | object | Data to facilitate clients responding to the operation reporting a standard error to indicating that it was unable to complete successfully. Operations may provide data that clients can use when responding to errors. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the context of the operation reporting the error, different operations that report the same error may provide different data in the error. The documentation for each each operation will describe what, if any, data it provides for each error it reports. The vapi.std.errors.argument_locations, vapi.std.errors.file_locations, and vapi.std.errors.transient_indication structures are intended as possible values for this field. vapi.std.dynamic_ID may also be useful as a value for this field (although that is not its primary purpose). Some services may provide their own specific structures for use as the value of this field when reporting errors from their operations. Optional. Some operations will not set this field when reporting errors.