Nova volume-attach should also allow user to provide volume name for the input.

[Sumant Murke]

Nova version 2.32.0

When we want to attach an existing volume to an exiting instance then it accepts only volume uuid to specify for attaching to the instance.

for example

name of the instance : test_vm
name of the volume my-volume

I did :
nova volume-attach test_vm my-volume

Expected result:
it should allow instance to attach the volume.

Actual result:
ERROR (NotFound): Volume my-volume could not be found. (HTTP 404) (Request-ID: req-0ba9225c-cc39-44b6-a85b-758cc2c97e2c)

It should also accept volume name if its unique throughout all the volume names like it allows instance name instead of UUID.

[Markus Zoeller (markus_z) (mzoeller)]

The REST API of Nova only accepts UUIDs [1]. The translation from object name to its UUID (like volume name to its UUID) is usually done via the novaclient. That's why I added the python-novaclient as affected project and marked it as invalid for the Nova project.

[1] http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2.1.html#attach

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/249634

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/310722

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Kevin L. Mitchell (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/249634
Reason: Not updated since November, no response to review comments.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Matt Riedemann (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/310722
Reason: This isn't being worked and I'd -2 it anyway. We're actively trying to remove proxy code from novaclient, and if we did this we'd have to add a proxy call to cinder to get the volume id via the name, and in this case I'm considering it something we're just not going to fix, people should use openstackclient for this if they need the convenience.