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NSX ALB Avi 30.1.1 - macro API "Input object does not have model_name field" even though present

Czernobog — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:32:06 GMT

I've started evaluating the Avi/NSX ALB product a short while ago and try to automate the creation of some of the objects.

When using the macro API to create a virtual service I cannot get past the "Input object does not have model_name field" error.

How this works is pretty confusing.

First I have created a new virtual service using the UI and captured the query using the browsers' developer mode. Afterwards I used curl to make a request, for which I copied the payload 1:1 from what was captured earlier. The error "Input object does not have model_name field" accompanzing a http error 400 was returned.

I've checked the payload, the model_name field was actually missing. Instead the "uri_path":"/api/virtualservice" was present. Manually adding the "model_name": "VirtualService" field to the payload did not resolve the error.

Using the example provided in MACRO API (avinetworks.com) also results in the error mentioned above.

Am I doing something wrong here? How does the query work, when executed using the UI without the model_name field?

Overall, the REST API makes a pretty janky first impression. I've noticed a similar problem when creating a new server pool. Copied the payload from browser dev mode, query returns an errro 400 with reason of being not able to interpret the healt monitor field...

Re: NSX ALB Avi 30.1.1 - macro API "Input object does not have model_name field" even thou

EvertAM — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 23:28:36 GMT

Do you have a (cleaned up if needed) example of the payload you used?

Re: NSX ALB Avi 30.1.1 - macro API "Input object does not have model_name field" even thou

Czernobog — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:13:33 GMT

This can be tested with the example provided in the documentation, it end with the response:

Response: {

"error": "Input object does not have model_name field"

}

ERROR!: 400 Client Error: BAD REQUEST for url: https://{base_url}/api/macro

I get the same response with my custom VS:

payload = { "model_name": "VirtualService", "data": { "name": "n_vs", "services": [ { "port": 80 } ], "vip":[ { "ip_address": { "type": "V4", "addr": "2.2.2.2" } } ], "application_profile_ref": "/api/applicationprofile?name=n_app_http", "pool_ref_data": { "name": "n_pool", "servers": [ { "ip": { "type": "V4", "addr": "1.1.1.1" } } ], "health_monitor_refs_data": [ { "type": "HEALTH_MONITOR_HTTP", "name": "n_http", "http_monitor": { "http_response_code": [ { "code": "HTTP_2XX" } ] } } ] } } }