Cannot upload files with maas-cli

[Gavin Panella]

{{{
$ bin/maascli login foo http://localhost:5240
$ bin/maascli foo files add filename=fred -d < my_file
400 BAD REQUEST

         Connection: close
       Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
               Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:14:57 GMT
             Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.4
             Status: 400
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
               Vary: Cookie

File not supplied
}}}

(The same happens when passing "file=$(< my_file)".)

This is because the server is looking at request.FILES, and maas-cli is not sending anything that'll get put in there. MAAS ought to learn how to do this.

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

Workaround: http://blog.allenap.me/2013/06/workaround-for-uploading-files-to-maas.html