flavor created successfully when flavorid neither integer nor UUID

[Eric Xie]

version: 2014.1 icehouse-stable

# nova help flavor-create
...
  <id> Unique ID (integer or UUID) for the new flavor. If
                        specifying 'auto', a UUID will be generated as id
...

"id" should be integer or UUID.

But when the "id" was set to non-integer or non-UUID, the flavor was also created successfully.

# nova flavor-create flv-testdddfasdfsfdsfdsf jljdfsfojgnngllllllll 512 1 1
+-----------------------+--------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| ID | Name | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public |
+-----------------------+--------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| jljdfsfojgnngllllllll | flv-testdddfasdfsfdsfdsf | 512 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True |
+-----------------------+--------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+

[Amandeep (rattenpal-amandeep)]

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/165299/

[melanie witt (melwitt)]

Is this bug supposed to be under nova? It's either a novaclient help message issue or a Wishlist for the nova API.

Nova API allows non-integer non-uuid flavorids, so changing this at the nova API level would be an API change with microversion needed.

[Diana Clarke (diana-clarke)]

I agree with Melanie – the help message should be changed rather than introducing a backward incompatible change to the nova API.

Here's a bug & patch to fix the help message. If the patch for bug 1503503 gets merged, then this bug can be closed.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-novaclient/+bug/1503503

Thanks folks!

[Abhishek Talwar (abhishek-talwar)]

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/287702/

[Diana Clarke (diana-clarke)]

Closing this bug since the help message in python-novaclient was updated to reflect the actual behaviour.

    Before: "Unique ID (integer or UUID) for the new flavor. If specifying 'auto', a UUID will be generated as ID."
    After: "Unique ID of the new flavor. Specifying 'auto' will generated a UUID for the ID."

https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-novaclient/commit/?id=d10486f064630bb04d0e084df456514770e62160