Confusing error message when API key is wrong

[Björn Tillenius]

This API used to work:

           maas vmaas nodes new
               architecture=amd64/generic mac_addresses=AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:01
               mac_addresses=22:AA:AA:AA:AA:01 hostname=client01 powertype=virsh
               autodetect_nodegroup=yes

But with 1.6 b6, I get this error:

    u'consumer.' is not a name=value or name@=filename pair

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Updated title to reflect the actual problem.

[Newell Jensen (newell-jensen)]

The output below is MaaS 1.6 b6, running in on an lxc container talking to my VMs and I don't see the above problem. Please re-verify or give additional information that would allow me to see this bug.

ubuntu@apiclient-bug:~$ maas vmaas nodes new architecture=amd64/generic mac_addresses=52:54:00:1d:33:2b mac_addresses=52:54:00:7f:8b:a8 powertype=virsh hostname=client01 autodetect_nodegroup=yes
{
    "status": 1,
    "macaddress_set": [
        {
            "resource_uri": "/MAAS/api/1.0/nodes/node-13b2268e-141d-11e4-b076-00163e12e746/macs/52%3A54%3A00%3A1d%3A33%3A2b/",
            "mac_address": "52:54:00:1d:33:2b"
        },
        {
            "resource_uri": "/MAAS/api/1.0/nodes/node-13b2268e-141d-11e4-b076-00163e12e746/macs/52%3A54%3A00%3A7f%3A8b%3Aa8/",
            "mac_address": "52:54:00:7f:8b:a8"
        }
    ],
    "cpu_count": 0,
    "zone": {
        "resource_uri": "/MAAS/api/1.0/zones/default/",
        "name": "default",
        "description": ""
    },
    "routers": null,
    "netboot": true,
    "osystem": "",
    "storage": 0,
    "owner": null,
    "ip_addresses": [],
    "system_id": "node-13b2268e-141d-11e4-b076-00163e12e746",
    "architecture": "amd64/generic",
    "memory": 0,
    "power_type": "",
    "tag_names": [
        "use-fastpath-installer"
    ],
    "hostname": "client01",
    "distro_series": "",
    "resource_uri": "/MAAS/api/1.0/nodes/node-13b2268e-141d-11e4-b076-00163e12e746/"
}

[Newell Jensen (newell-jensen)]

After changing the API key for MaaS (i.e. wrong API key now for the profile 'vmass'):

ubuntu@apiclient-bug:~$ maas vmaas nodes new architecture=amd64/generic mac_addresses=52:54:00:1d:33:2b mac_addresses=52:54:00:7f:8b:a8 powertype=virsh hostname=client01 autodetect_nodegroup=yes
Invalid consumer.