On 06/23/2015 02:49 PM, Scott Miller wrote:
I am unable to POST with json to the REST api. Every attempt is returned with:
{ "message": "Request syntactically incorrect. See the description below for the correct usage:",
From what I can see the syntax should be ok however I am unable to locate any json examples for the ovirt REST api on github, or in any ovirt docs.
Can you help me?
Should be something like this (using curl): ---8<--- #!/bin/sh -ex url="https://engine.example.com/ovirt-engine/api" user="admin@internal" password="..." curl \ --insecure \ --user "${user}:${password}" \ --request POST \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --header "Accept: application/json" \ --data ' { "name": "scott_test", "cluster": { "name": "LabRDU" }, "template": { "name": "CentOS-6.6-RDU" } } ' \ "${url}/vms" --->8--- Note that in the JSON document you don't need a wrapping "vm" element, and that the names of the cluster and the template are inner elements. When in doubt you can obtain examples from the RESTAPI itself. For example, if you want to see how a VM is represented using JSON go to a URL like this in your browser: https://.../ovirt-engine/api/vms/the-id-of-the-vm?accept=application/json
Details:
RHEVM 3.5.3.1-1.4.el6ev
Testing app: Postman
Example requests with only basic needed items to create a VM, both fail with above syntax error:
POST /api/vms HTTP/1.1 Host: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Content-Type: application/json Accept: application/json Cache-Control: no-cache Postman-Token: 8816bbe9-998e-02b6-1873-f4292657868e
{ "vm": { "name": "scott_test", "cluster.name": "LabRDU", "template.name": "CentOS-6.6-RDU" } }
POST /api/vms HTTP/1.1 Host: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Content-Type: application/json Accept: application/json Cache-Control: no-cache Postman-Token: 8816bbe9-998e-02b6-1873-f4292657868e
{ "vm.name": "scott_test", "vm.cluster.name": "LabRDU", "vm.template.name": "CentOS-6.6-RDU" } _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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