Merge pull request vmware#2973 from yi0909/topic/yijiang/fix-task-rec…

…ent-tasks

Fix: use latestPages in task HistoryCollector

task/history_collector.go

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-Copyright (c) 2015 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2015-2022 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -38,12 +38,15 @@ func newHistoryCollector(c *vim25.Client, ref types.ManagedObjectReference) *His
 	}
 }
 
-// RecentTasks returns a list of task managed objects that completed recently,
-// that are currently running, or that are queued to run.
-func (h HistoryCollector) RecentTasks(ctx context.Context) ([]types.TaskInfo, error) {
+// LatestPage returns items in the 'viewable latest page' of the task history collector.
+// As new tasks that match the collector's TaskFilterSpec are created,
+// they are added to this page, and the oldest tasks are removed from the collector to keep
+// the size of the page to that allowed by SetCollectorPageSize.
+// The "oldest task" is the one with the oldest creation time. The tasks in the returned page are unordered.
+func (h HistoryCollector) LatestPage(ctx context.Context) ([]types.TaskInfo, error) {
 	var o mo.TaskHistoryCollector
 
-	err := h.Properties(ctx, h.Reference(), []string{"recentTask"}, &o)
+	err := h.Properties(ctx, h.Reference(), []string{"latestPage"}, &o)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}