SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::editObject update datacenters - image

Question

The createFromExternalSource method does not allow you to specify a list of datacenters to enable the image to be used. I can get the image imported, but then when I then go to edit the image template to augment the datacenters, I always get:
{"error":"Object does not exist to execute method on.
(SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::editObject)","code":"SoftLayer_Exception"}
Does anyone have a proper example of using editObject for SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group using JSON not XMLRPC like the slcli does?
Preferred if some has a curl example which updates attributes on SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group object would be awesome.

Answer 1

To update the datacenters of an image template you have to use the method “setAvailableLocations” of the service SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group.
The method editObject just edit an image template group's name and note.
You can use this curl example to update the datacenters of an imagen template:
curl -d #post.json -k https://[username]:[apiKey]#api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group/1722867/setAvailableLocations.json | python -mjson.tool
You have to add in this curl example the json file “#post.json”, where is the image template body.
The json file must contain the following data:
{
"parameters": [
[
{
"id": 265592
},
{
"id": 814994
},
{
"id": 138124
},
{
"id": 154820
},
{
"id": 449600
}
]
]
}
To get the datacenters ids you can use this curl command example:
curl -k "https://[username]:[apiKey]#api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Location/getDatacenters.json" | python -mjson.tool