Documentation tells that to create subnet and port (using xml formatted body), no request body is required while without request body subnet or port can't be created

[Mh Raies]

In the page http://api.openstack.org/api-ref.html#netconn-api
Subnet and Port section tells that subnet/port creation does not require a request body.

While without request body no subnet/port can be created.
When I tried subnet creation without body then 400(bad request response) and body required error displayed.

[Mh Raies (raiesmh08)]

I tried by following request body for subnet creation and subnet is successfully created -

curl -i http://<ip>:9696/v2.0/subnets.xml -X POST -H "X-Auth-Token: <id> -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "User-Agent: python-neutronclient" -d '<subnet ><network_id >id</network_id><ip_version >4</ip_version><cidr >cidr</cidr></subnet>'

Thus required body is like -

<subnet ><network_id >network_id_here</network_id><cidr >required_cidr_here</cidr></subnet>

[Mh Raies (raiesmh08)]

I tried by following request body for portt creation and port is successfully created -

curl -i http://<ip>:9696/v2.0/ports.xml -X POST -H "X-Auth-Token: <id> -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "User-Agent: python-neutronclient" -d '<port ><network_id >id</network_id></port>'

Thus required body is like -

'<port ><network_id >network_id_here</network_id></port>

[Mh Raies (raiesmh08)]

In comment 1 : request body will require ip version also -

<subnet ><network_id >network_id_here</network_id><ip_version>4_or_6</ip_version><cidr >required_cidr_here</cidr></subnet>

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/164478

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/164478
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/api-site/commit/?id=dbbc9c76d69427b12c8d75fe638f440d7aa500b3
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit dbbc9c76d69427b12c8d75fe638f440d7aa500b3
Author: Diane Fleming <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Mar 14 21:10:59 2015 -0500

    Changes to create subnet and create port descriptions.

    For create subnet, changed ip_version to required.
    For create port, changed mediaType to "application/xml"
    for the XML sample so that it shows up correctly.
    Minor edits to active voice.

    Change-Id: Ic1b50f69ed874fd44f43371504560012c09f24cc
    Closes-Bug: #1207196