should nova allow creating images/instances with same names?

[Neetu Jain]

root@control-mel01-1:~# nova --os-region-name mel01 image-list
+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
| ID | Name | Status | Server |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
| 07b4bc72-f1a5-4e1c-b9aa-| n-snapshot | ACTIVE | 2595dc48-43f8--ba92-55a22f48880b |
| 7596ea48-d0d1-4dca-92ed-| n-snapshot | ACTIVE | -43f8--ba92-55a22f48880b |

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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@Neetu: This has nothing to do with the desktop documentation, so I'm changing the affected target. Please change it to the proper package.

[Neetu Jain (nutshi)]

seems like it landed in the wrong place .. this should go to nova .. can you guide me how to place this bug in the right place ? i updated effected projects..

[Neetu Jain (nutshi)]

seems like its as per design ( since i nova instances can also be created with duplicate name)
I am curoius to know what was the reason for this decision though

[Neetu Jain (nutshi)]

this should probably be handled at the client side for better usability as well as server side for functionality

[melanie witt (melwitt)]

Hi Neetu, indeed the nova api and client allow creating resources with duplicate names, because each resource has a unique id (uuid) which is its primary key. So when you have two images with the same name as in your example, you must delete them by passing their uuids to identify them uniquely.