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Hi!

Easy mistake to make :) You need to change your "personality" value to a 
list not a dict.

So, instead of this:

"personality": {"path": "/etc/banner.txt", "contents": "I am a text in a 
banner"}

you need:

"personality": [{"path": "/etc/banner.txt", "contents": "I am a text in 
a banner"}]

Both validate in JSON, of course, but have different meanings.

Best,
-jay

On 03/30/2012 04:46 AM, Nicolas Odermatt wrote:
> Hello guys
>
> I am trying to write a python script, which creates a new server on a
> compute node. As information sources I used the "Programming OpenStack
> Compute API - 1.1" guide [1] and the "OpenStack Compute Developer Guide
> - API v2" [2] book.
>
> I managed to create API calls for retrieving the api token, flavors and
> images. All this went very smoothly thanks to the good documentation.
>
> Strange enough, in my server create script seems to be some kind of
> syntax/format error, according to the error message I receive, when I
> execute the script. The system or rather the api tells me that the
> personality information for the server is malformed:
> {"badRequest": {"message": "Bad personality format", "code": 400}}
>
> However I can't figure out what is wrong, because my JSON string is in
> the correct syntax, as you can see on this website [4]. I checked the
> nova-api-log but I wans't able to extract more information from there. I
> posted the output of my nova-api-log at the end of my e-mail.
>
> I uploaded my script into my git repository [3], if someone wants to
> scann the whole file. Has someone an idea what I might have overseen?
>
> Thanks for your inputs.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicolas
>
> ## Supplementary
>
> Nova-api.log
> 2012-03-24 09:33:19,903 DEBUG nova [-] HTTP PERF: 0.01919 seconds to GET
> 127.0.0.1:35357 <http://127.0.0.1:35357>
> /v2.0/tokens/a9a59cbd-a68f-473d-a6df-33c44fa2c485) from (pid=1197)
> getresponse /var/lib/nova/keystone/common/bufferedhttp.py:99
> 2012-03-24 09:33:19,916 DEBUG nova [-] HTTP PERF: 0.01223 seconds to GET
> 127.0.0.1:35357 <http://127.0.0.1:35357>
> /v2.0/tokens/a9a59cbd-a68f-473d-a6df-33c44fa2c485) from (pid=1197)
> getresponse /var/lib/nova/keystone/common/bufferedhttp.py:99
> 2012-03-24 09:33:19,917 DEBUG routes.middleware
> [1f576a54-c01e-46cf-9fb8-aa5c278dbce7 nodermatt 4] No route matched for
> POST /4/servers from (pid=1197) __call__
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/routes/middleware.py:97
> 2012-03-24 09:33:19,918 DEBUG routes.middleware
> [1f576a54-c01e-46cf-9fb8-aa5c278dbce7 nodermatt 4] Matched POST
> /4/servers from (pid=1197) __call__
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/routes/middleware.py:100
> 2012-03-24 09:33:19,918 DEBUG routes.middleware
> [1f576a54-c01e-46cf-9fb8-aa5c278dbce7 nodermatt 4] Route path:
> '/{project_id}/servers', defaults: {'action': u'create', 'controller':
> <nova.api.openstack.wsgi.Resource object at 0x29adc50>} from (pid=1197)
> __call__ /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/routes/middleware.py:102
> 2012-03-24 09:33:19,918 DEBUG routes.middleware
> [1f576a54-c01e-46cf-9fb8-aa5c278dbce7 nodermatt 4] Match dict:
> {'action': u'create', 'controller': <nova.api.openstack.wsgi.Resource
> object at 0x29adc50>, 'project_id': u'4'} from (pid=1197) __call__
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/routes/middleware.py:103
> 2012-03-24 09:33:19,918 INFO nova.api.openstack.wsgi
> [1f576a54-c01e-46cf-9fb8-aa5c278dbce7 nodermatt 4] POST
> http://192.168.163.20:8774/v1.1/4/servers
> 2012-03-24 09:33:20,595 INFO nova.api.openstack.wsgi
> [1f576a54-c01e-46cf-9fb8-aa5c278dbce7 nodermatt 4] HTTP exception
> thrown: 400 Bad Request
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Length: 0
> 2012-03-24 09:33:20,595 INFO nova.api.openstack.wsgi
> [1f576a54-c01e-46cf-9fb8-aa5c278dbce7 nodermatt 4]
> http://192.168.163.20:8774/v1.1/4/servers returned with HTTP 400
>
>
> [1]
> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-compute/programmer/content/booting-a-new-server.html
> [2]
> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-compute/2/content/CreateServers.html
> [3] https://github.com/nodermatt/IPA/blob/master/CreateServer.py
> [4]
> http://www.bodurov.com/JsonFormatter/view.aspx?json=%257B%2522server%2522%253A%257B%2522name%2522%253A%2520%2522Server-name%2522%252C%2520%2522imageRef%2522%253A%2520%2522http%253A%2F%2F192.168.163.20%253A8774%2Fv1.1%2F4%2Fimages%2F2%2522%252C%2520%2522flavorRef%2522%253A%2520%2522http%253A%2F%2F192.168.163.20%253A8774%2Fv1.1%2F4%2Fflavors%2F1%2522%252C%2520%2522metadata%2522%253A%2520%257B%2522My%2520Server%2520Name%2522%253A%2522Servername-meta%2522%257D%252C%2520%2522personality%2522%253A%2520%257B%2522path%2522%253A%2520%2522%2Fetc%2Fbanner.txt%2522%252C%2520%2522contents%2522%253A%2520%2522I%2520am%2520a%2520text%2520in%2520a%2520banner%2522%257D%2520%257D%257D
>
> --
> Freundliche Grüsse,
> Nicolas Odermatt
>
>
>
>
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