Create Host Record.. record:host with Powershell against WAPI V2.0

Question

Basically I canoot get this to work in PS or in Pearl which makes me wonder if the syntax has changed

A Get command:
https://10.10.61.20/wapi/v2.0/record:host

the Get Result:
bullet3falserecord:host_ipv4addr/ZG5zLmhvc3RfYWRkcmVzcyQubm9uX0ROU19ob3N0X3Jvb3QuMC4xNDMxMDA2MTg0MjE4LmJ1bGxldDMuMTAuMTAuNjEuMzAu:10.10.61.30/bullet3/%2000:00:00:00:00:0010.10.61.30bullet3record:host/ZG5zLmhvc3QkLm5vbl9ETlNfaG9zdF9yb290LjAuMTQzMTAwNjE4NDIxOC5idWxsZXQz:bullet3/%20

The above is correct theere is only one host configured on the system... the problem arises when I try to create a host

A POST command:
https://10.10.61.20/wapi/v2.0/record:host?{{'ipv4addrs':%20[{'ipv4addr':%20'10.10.61.31'}],%20'name':%20'hostname.localdomain'}&_method=POST

The Post Result:
{ "Error": "AdmConProtoError: Unknown argument/field: '{{'ipv4addrs': [{'ipv4addr': '10.10.61.31'}], 'name': 'hostname.localdomain'}'", 
  "code": "Client.Ibap.Proto", 
  "text": "Unknown argument/field: '{{'ipv4addrs': [{'ipv4addr': '10.10.61.31'}], 'name': 'hostname.localdomain'}'"
}

In Pearl:

curl -k -i -u "admin:infoblox" -X POST https://10.10.61.20/wapi/v2.0/record:host -d  {"ipv4addrs":[{"ipv4addr":"10.10.61.31"}],"name":"host.localdomain"}
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 16:41:35 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json
set-cookie: ibapauth="ip=10.10.22.70,client=API,group=admin-group,ctime=1431016895,timeout=600,mtime=1431016895,su=1,auth=LOCAL,user=admin,rDjEfnaSExUd3CNQQ8dyIEQnQ+Nl40RTTKM"; httponly; Path=/; secure
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{ "Error": "AdmConProtoError: Unknown argument/field: 'ipv4addrs:[{ipv4addr:10.10.61.31}]'",
  "code": "Client.Ibap.Proto",
  "text": "Unknown argument/field: 'ipv4addrs:[{ipv4addr:10.10.61.31}]'"

Any Help at All would be appreciated, this API isn't one of the most intuatve that I'v worked with.

Thanks.

Scott

IrekRomaniuk · Answer

I have similar error

{ "Error": "AdmConProtoError: Unknown argument/field: 'ipv4addrs'", 
"code": "Client.Ibap.Proto", 
"text": "Unknown argument/field: 'ipv4addrs'"
}

when doing PUT request  https://[GRID]//wapi/v2.3/record:a/_ref (reference here) and neither { [ { "ipv4addr":"1.1.1.31" } ] } nor { "name":"webt.xxx.com","ipv4addrs":[ { "ipv4addr":"1.1.1.31" } ] } help.

FHecker · Answer

I'm pretty sure that your problem is that you need to specify that the data submitted as part of the POST request is in JSON format. For example, if I do the following Curl command then it works as expected and the host record is successfully created:

curl --tlsv1 --user 'admin:infoblox' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"name": "foobar.example.com", "ipv4addrs": [{"ipv4addr": "192.168.1.15"}]}' 'https://gm.example.com/wapi/v2.0/record:host'

However if I omit the --header option, as in the following command:

curl --tlsv1 --user 'admin:infoblox' --data '{"name": "foobar.example.com", "ipv4addrs": [{"ipv4addr": "192.168.1.16"}]}' 'https://gm.example.com/wapi/v2.0/record:host'

then I get the exact same error you're seeing.