glance image-create queues an image even though the image isn't specified

[Pradeep Chandrasekar]

glance image-create command queues the image even though we don't specify the file using the --file option. It stays in the queued state forever.

#> glance image-create --name "Ubuntu" --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare

#> glance image-list
ge-list
+-------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+-------------------------+------------+--------+
| ID | Name | Disk Format | Container Format | Size | Status |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+-------------------------+-------------+--------+
| 34d14f2f-14ef-40df-81d3-1154c176104f | Ubuntu | qcow2 | bare | | queued |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+-------------------------+-------------+--------+

[Jun Hong Li (junhongl)]

Pradeep, what version of glance api endpiont are you using? v1 or v2? I am kind of thinking it is the designed behavior, I will discuss this with others in irc later after you tell me the api version.

[Pradeep Chandrasekar (pradeepcsekar)]

Jun, v1 APIs are used. If it is intended design, please let us know the reason? The horizon won't let you to create an image without specifying the file though.

[Jun Hong Li (junhongl)]

Hi Pradeep,

glanceclient will call the create method in glance.api.v1.images.py:

    def create(self, req, image_meta, image_data):
        """
        Adds a new image to Glance. Four scenarios exist when creating an
        image:

......

        4. If the image data is not available yet, but you'd like reserve a
           spot for it, you can omit the data and a record will be created in
           the 'queued' state. This exists primarily to maintain backwards
           compatibility with OpenStack/Rackspace API semantics.

......
        """

Please note bulletin 4, which should be the case you listed here. So I think it works as design.

[Alfred Shen (alfredcs)]

I ran into the same issue on following glance revisions on14.04. Any suggest to resolve this?

glance 1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0
glance-api 1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0
glance-common 1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0
glance-registry 1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0
python-glance 1:2015.1.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0
python-glance-store 0.4.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0
python-glanceclient 1:0.15.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0