There is also a bug in nova. Both the documentation and the data model show "description" as an optional field, but the implementation erroneously requires it as it calls a validate_property function on "description" whether it was provided or not:
http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/api/openstack/compute/contrib/security_groups.py#n201 http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/compute/api.py#n3838 ** Changed in: nova Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nova Status: Won't Fix => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434172 Title: security group create errors without description Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): Confirmed Status in Python client library for Nova: In Progress Status in OpenStack Command Line Client: In Progress Bug description: security group create returns an error without --description supplied. This appears to be the server rejecting the request so we should set a default value rather than sending None. $ openstack security group create qaz ERROR: openstack Security group description is not a string or unicode (HTTP 400) (Request-ID: req-dee03de3-893a-4d58-bc3d-de87d09c3fb8) Sent body: {"security_group": {"name": "qaz2", "description": null}} To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1434172/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
