server create --nic option clumsy

[Terry Howe]

Every time I go to create a server I cannot remember the syntax for adding a network. The --nic option is poorly documented and clumsy. It would help at least if it was action='append' so that you didn't have to parse the string for commas. It would really be nice if there just was a --network option that was action='append' that you could add the networks you want associated with the server.

[Terry Howe (thowe-g)]

Also, there is no find by name for networks on the --nic option

[Dean Troyer (dtroyer)]

Agreed this needs attention. One thing to also keep in mind when designing a cleaner interface is trying to keep the needs of nova-network and neutron in mind and attempt to make the interface for both of them the same.

[Steve Martinelli (stevemar)]

Patch in progress: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/144104/

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/144104
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-openstackclient/commit/?id=520b2f10cf0218509ca6cab7439214be812b425e
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 520b2f10cf0218509ca6cab7439214be812b425e
Author: zhiyuan_cai <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Dec 26 17:17:35 2014 +0800

    Add 'find by name' to --nic for creating server

    Add 'find by name' feature to --nic option for creating server.

    Closes-Bug: #1353040
    Change-Id: Idd0a30415d8360a57e33efedf2467593652683d4