uri body call needs [] instead of {}

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1

I am working on some uri calls with netbackup and with swagger shows that it only works with but the uri modual is using {}. Any thoughts or tricks to get that to format correctly?

For example i am sending a body uri body of:

`

  • name: Create MSDP Disk Pool
    uri:
    url: “{{baseurl}}storage/disk-pools”
    method: POST
    body_format: json
    status_code: 201
    headers:
    authorization: “{{login.json.token}}”
    content-type: application/vnd.netbackup+json;version=3.0
    body:
    data:
    type: diskPool
    attributes:
    name: server_dpm
    diskVolumes:
    [name: PureDiskVolume]
    maximumIoStreams:
    limitIoStreams: true
    streamsPerVolume: 75
    relationships:
    storageServers:
    data:
    type: storageServer
    id: ‘PureDisk:server.domain’
    validate_certs: no
    return_content: yes
    register: dp_create

`

Which produces this:

`

“body”: {
“data”: {
“attributes”: {
“diskVolumes”: [
{
“name”: “PureDiskVolume”
}
],
“maximumIoStreams”: {
“limitIoStreams”: true,
“streamsPerVolume”: 75
},
“name”: “server_dpm”
},
“relationships”: {
“storageServers”: {
“data”: {
“id”: “PureDisk:server.domain”,
“type”: “storageServer”
}
}
},
“type”: “diskPool”
}
},

`

While swagger produces it as this:

`

working:

{
“data”: {
“type”: “diskPool”,
“attributes”: {
“name”: “server_dpm”,
“diskVolumes”: [
{
“name”: “PureDiskVolume”
}
],

“maximumIoStreams”: {
“limitIoStreams”: true,
“streamsPerVolume”: 75
}

},
“relationships”: {
“storageServers”: {
“data”: [
{
“type”: “storageServer”,
“id”: “PureDisk:server.domain”
}
]
}
}
}
}

`

2

You’re sending something that doesn’t work, and you seem to know exactly what the problem is, and also what format does work. So the solution is… send that?

Or am I missing something

3

The problem is I don’t know how to make ansible send the right bracket. Testing from swagger I know what it expects.

4

The problem is I don't know how to make ansible send the right bracket. Testing from swagger I know what it expects.

Hello Nicholas,

try to use a list instead of a dict:

data:
  - type: storageServer
    id: 'PureDisk:server.domain'

Regards
        Racke

5

Is it the - in front of type that makes it a list over a dict?

6

When i try that i get a syntax error.

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
“reason”: “Syntax Error while loading YAML.\n did not find expected ‘-’ indicator\n\nThe error appears to be in ‘/home/nbritton/ansible/gts-core-storage-operations/netbackup/tasks/msdp.create.include.yml’: line 78, column 17, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n - type: storageServer\n id: ‘PureDisk:server’\n ^ here\nThis one looks easy to fix. It seems that there is a value started\nwith a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended\nwith the same kind of quote. For instance:\n\n when: "ok" in result.stdout\n\nCould be written as:\n\n when: ‘"ok" in result.stdout’\n\nOr equivalently:\n\n when: "‘ok’ in result.stdout"\n”
}

7

Hi Nicholas,

When i try that i get a syntax error.

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
    "reason": "Syntax Error while loading YAML.\n

Literal style indicator of the block is missing "|"
https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2795688

Try:
                   body: |

instead of

> > body:
> > data:
> > type: diskPool
> > attributes:
> > name: server_dpm
> > diskVolumes:
> > [name: PureDiskVolume]
> > maximumIoStreams:
> > limitIoStreams: true
> > streamsPerVolume: 75
> > relationships:
> > storageServers:
> > data:
> > type: storageServer
> > id: 'PureDisk:server.domain'

Cheers,

  -vlado

8

Hi Nicholas,

When i try that i get a syntax error.

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
    "reason": "Syntax Error while loading YAML.\n

Indentation is wrong. (Disregard my previous email.)

> > body:
> > data:
> > . type: diskPool
> > . attributes:
> > . name: server_dpm
> > . diskVolumes:
> > . [name: PureDiskVolume]
> > . maximumIoStreams:
> > . limitIoStreams: true
> > . streamsPerVolume: 75
> > .relationships:
> > .storageServers:
> > data:
> > type: storageServer
> > id: 'PureDisk:server.domain'

Cheers,

  -vlado

9

Okay I can try that. Looks like you added a . In front of each line but the last one that needs to be a list? Did I see that correct?

10

Thank everyone for the help. Once i lined up the - correctly it worked. That was a nice trick to learn.

relationships:
storageServers:
data:

  • type: storageServer
    id: “PureDisk:{{mediaserver}}.{{domain}}”