Update image metadata items

Overview

Updates metadata items by key for a specified image.

Classification

  • Update

API Operation Object

  • images

Synchronous / Asynchronous

  • -

Request

HTTP Request Method

  • POST

HTTP Request Path

{api_endpoint}/v2/{tenant_id}/images/{image_id}/metadata

HTTP Request Header

Format

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress (optional)
Accept: application/json
X-Auth-Token: <token_id>
Content-Type: application/json

HTTP Request Body

Format

{
    "metadata": {
        "kernel_id": "<True or False>",
        "Label": "<Label>"
    }
}

Request Parameter

Request Parameters

name

style

format

description

required/optional

tenant_id

URI

UUID

The tenant ID in a multi-tenancy cloud.

required

image_id

URI

UUID

The UUID for the image.

required

Response

HTTP Response Header

Format

HTTP/1.1 <response_code> <message>       (ex. 200 OK)
  • <response_code>: see "HTTP Responses" section

  • <message>: message based on the response code

    • skip auto insert field such as "X-Compute-Request-Id" and "Content-Length", "Date"

Response Code

Response Codes

response code

condition

200

normal end

400

badRequest

-

NetworkNotFound

401

unauthorized

403

forbidden

404

itemNotFound

405

badMethod

409

buildInProgres

413

overLimit

415

badMediaType

503

serviceUnavailable

HTTP Response Body

Format

{
    "metadata": {
        "Label": "<Label>",
        "architecture": "<architecture>",
        "auto_disk_config": "<auto_disk_config>",
        "kernel_id": "<kernel_id>",
        "ramdisk_id": "<ramdisk_id>"
    }
}

Response Parameter

Response Parameters

item

format

description

next (Optional)

anyURI

Moves to the next metadata item.

previous (Optional)

anyURI

Moves to the previous metadata item.

Label

String

Label of metadata

architecture

String

The architecture of the metadata

auto_disk_config

boolean

Processing method of the root disk partition.
If True, to use all available virtual disk

If False, and use the size of the image

kernel_id

String

kernel id

ramdisk_id

String

ramdisk id

Sample API Request and Response

Sample API Request

Request URI

https://example.com/v2/{tenant_id}/images/{image_id}/metadata

Request Header

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress (optional)
Accept: application/json
X-Auth-Token: ajk3adjiown02
Content-Type: application/json

Request Body

{
    "metadata": {
        "kernel_id": "False",
        "Label": "UpdatedImage"
    }
}

Sample API Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  • <response_code>: see "HTTP Responses" section

  • <message>: message based on the response code

    • skip auto insert field such as "X-Compute-Request-Id" and "Content-Length", "Date"

Response Body

{
    "metadata": {
        "Label": "UpdatedImage",
        "architecture": "x86_64",
        "auto_disk_config": "True",
        "kernel_id": "False",
        "ramdisk_id": "nokernel"
    }
}

Execution Example

HTTP Request

GET /v2/f66f8e846a65484a9a6740077e72e3dd/images/e1cfdfe1-669f-4343-91ab-7eb699cda5c7/metadata HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
Host: 192.168.56.250:8774
X-Auth-Token: eb46ce9e8a204cbabacc51282ac691ad
Accept: application/json

HTTP Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 16
X-Compute-Request-Id: req-8d0a828b-dcb2-4108-bdd8-cb33d14290f6
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 05:55:59 GMT

{"metadata": {"label": "UpdatedImage"}}

Error Execution Example

HTTP Request

POST /v2/f66f8e846a65484a9a6740077e72e3dd/images/e1cfdfe1-669f-4343-91ab-7eb699cda5c7/metadata HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
Host: 192.168.56.250:8774
X-Auth-Token: eb46ce9e8a204cbabacc51282ac691ad
Accept: application/json

HTTP Response

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Length: 141
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
X-Compute-Request-Id: req-a38cc946-ae7d-4279-ace9-4d9aa71d8630
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 05:48:58 GMT

{"badRequest": {"message": "The server could not comply with the request since it is either malformed or otherwise incorrect.", "code": 400}}