From eae491de61e6e70b3741fe0b892c2f416685dd52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Monthe <anthony.monthe@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:24:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow `hardware.place_order` with size ID (and name)

---
 SoftLayer/managers/hardware.py | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/SoftLayer/managers/hardware.py b/SoftLayer/managers/hardware.py
index e137ee6f3..edbc25f5c 100644
--- a/SoftLayer/managers/hardware.py
+++ b/SoftLayer/managers/hardware.py
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ def place_order(self, **kwargs):
 
         See get_create_options() for valid arguments.
 
-        :param string size: server size name
+        :param string size: server size name or presetId
         :param string hostname: server hostname
         :param string domain: server domain name
         :param string location: location (datacenter) name
@@ -467,13 +467,18 @@ def _generate_create_dict(self,
             'hostname': hostname,
             'domain': domain,
         }
-
+        try:
+            size = _get_preset_id(package, size)
+        except SoftLayer.SoftLayerError as err:
+            if not err.message.startswith('Could not find valid size for'):
+                raise
+            size = size
         order = {
             'hardware': [hardware],
             'location': location['keyname'],
             'prices': [{'id': price} for price in prices],
             'packageId': package['id'],
-            'presetId': _get_preset_id(package, size),
+            'presetId': size,
             'useHourlyPricing': hourly,
         }