'prefix': ['This field is required.'] error using put api thru python

[sreeram haridas]

This is the code im trying to use for updating description for an existing prefix

url_test = /api/ipam/prefixes/{id}

r = requests.put(
    url_test,
    headers=headers,
    data={'prefix': cidr, 'description': 'test'})

and im receiving the following

<Response [400]>

{'prefix': ['This field is required.']}

Is this correct?

[Jeremy Stretch]

Yes, this is correct. PUT requests require a full representation of the object. To make a partial update, use PATCH.

Jeremy

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[sreeram haridas]

SO Im getting 400 error and the response still doesnt have the description field updated.

This is what im looking at

{
    "id": 2083,
    "family": 4,
    "prefix": "10.220.82.0/23",
    "site": null,
    "vrf": null,
    "tenant": null,
    "vlan": null,
    "status": {
        "value": 2,
        "label": "Reserved"
    },
    "role": {
        "id": 6,
        "url": "http://xxxx/api/ipam/roles/6/",
        "name": "AWS-CLIENT-VPC-OPTIONS",
        "slug": "aws-client-vpc-options"
    },
    "is_pool": false,
    "description": "",
    "custom_fields": {}
}

Output response is 

<Response [400]>

{'prefix': ['This field is required.']}

What does this mean

On Thursday, 4 April 2019 15:55:11 UTC-4, Jeremy Stretch wrote:

Yes, this is correct. PUT requests require a full representation of the object. To make a partial update, use PATCH.

Jeremy

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 3:27 PM sreeram haridas <sreera...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is the code im trying to use for updating description for an existing prefix

url_test = /api/ipam/prefixes/{id}

r = requests.put(
    url_test,
    headers=headers,
    data={'prefix': cidr, 'description': 'test'})

and im receiving the following

<Response [400]>

{'prefix': ['This field is required.']}

Is this correct?

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[Brian Candler]

This is python, right?  I think you need json= rather than data=

r = requests.patch(

    url_test,

    headers=headers,

    json={'prefix': cidr, 'description': 'test'})

See: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#more-complicated-post-requests

Also, you'll need the trailing slash after the id - e.g. /api/ipam/prefixes/1/

There is a Python Netbox library you can use which you might prefer, see

https://github.com/digitalocean/pynetbox