Possible invalid request generated by client

[littlebenlittle]

It appears the client is generating an invalid request. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the client itself or with the endpoint. I have also opened a stackoverflow question.

Environment details

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04
• Python version: 3.6.7
• pip version: pip3 9.0.1
• google-api-python-client version: 1.7.4

Steps to reproduce

from apiclient.discovery import build

compute = build('compute', 'v1')
cmd = compute.instances().insert(
    project='my-project'
    zone='us-central1-c',
    body=config)
cmd.execute()

HttpError: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/my-project/zones/us-central1-c/instances?alt=json
returned "Required field 'resource' not specified">

config is a json string conforming to the specification in the documentation.

[busunkim96]

Hi @littlebenlittle.

I'm able to get the same error by passing an empty config:

from googleapiclient.discovery import build

compute = build('compute', 'v1')
config = {}

cmd = compute.instances().insert(
    project='my-project-1',
    zone='us-central1-c',
    body={})
cmd.execute()

I was also able to create an instance with the config you provided in your stackoverflow question.

from googleapiclient.discovery import build

compute = build('compute', 'v1')
config = {
  "name": "my-instance",
  "machineType": "zones/us-central1-c/machineTypes/n1-standard-1",
 
  "disks": [
      {
          "boot": "True",
          "autoDelete": "True",
          "initializeParams": {
              "sourceImage": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/gce-uefi-images/global/images/ubuntu-1804-bionic-v20181203a"
          }
      }
  ],
 
  "networkInterfaces": [{
      "network": "global/networks/default",
      "accessConfigs": [
          {"type": "ONE_TO_ONE_NAT", "name": "External NAT"}
      ]
  }],
 
  "serviceAccounts": [{
      "email": "default",
      "scopes": [
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only",
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write",
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write",
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol",
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly",
            "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append"
      ]
  }],
 
  "metadata": {
      "items": [{
          "key": "startup-script-uri",
          "value": "gs://my-bucket/my-startup.sh"
      }]
  }
}
cmd = compute.instances().insert(
    project='admin-sdk-224423',
    zone='us-central1-c',
    body=config)
cmd.execute()

Can you take a look to make sure config is being defined correctly? If you haven't looked at it already this script shows how to create a Compute Engine instance.

[littlebenlittle]

It looks I was sending a string as config instead of a dict and that was causing the problem.

[tseaver]

@littlebenlittle Glad you've found a resolution!

[VinayKadalagi]

config = {
'name': "test-instance"
}
compute.instances().insert(
project=GCP_PROJECT,
zone=ZONE,
body=config,
sourceInstanceTemplate="global/instanceTemplates/instance-template-1").execute()

Working code which might help someone

[busunkim96]

@VinayKadalagi If you're experiencing a problem please open a new issue with more details. Thanks!