Security group update API missing in nova and neutron API docs

[David Shrewsbury]

Neither the Nova API docs:

    http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2-ext.html#os-security-groups

nor the Neutron API docs:

   http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-networking-v2-ext.html#security_groups

Show the API for *updating* a security group. Both the neutron and nova CLI's
have commands for updating a sec group (and they both work), so the docs must
be incorrect here.

[Anne Gentle (annegentle)]

It's possible there's no "update" command in the API and the client is issuing "DELETE" then "POST" commands. The way to find out is to do: nova --debug secgroup-update <secgroup> <name> <description> and you can see all the API commands go. Do that and let me know what you find out. I'm trying myself with my various cloud accounts but so far I don't have one where the policy lets me do this.

[David Shrewsbury (dshrews)]

Thanks Anne. It's definitely a PUT for the update, and there is definitely an update command in the API:

   https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/blob/master/novaclient/v2/security_groups.py#L51

which eventually calls self.api.client.put() here:

   https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/blob/master/novaclient/base.py#L174

FYI, this was tested on HP Cloud. Debug output showed no DELETE, only PUT:

DEBUG (session:195) REQ: curl -g -i -X PUT https://region-b.geo-1.compute.hpcloudsvc.com/v2/55017136973364/os-security-groups/GROUPID -H "User-Agent: python-novaclient" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Token: {SHA1}ABC123" -d '{"security_group": {"name": "devel", "description": "Devel group"}}'

[Tom Fifield (fifieldt)]

was looking for this too.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/220569

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/220569
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/api-site/commit/?id=73fbcef0394f8a22b342dc670899c0984d5d4c34
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 73fbcef0394f8a22b342dc670899c0984d5d4c34
Author: Diane Fleming <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Sep 4 11:07:47 2015 -0500

    Add "update security group" to Compute v2 and Networking v2

    Change-Id: I4ff45c7a998b1c0048e23e058f4ce15a3136287b
    Closes-Bug: #1463131