How to Update a List/Table attribute using Spectrum REST API?

Products

• CA Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

How to Update a List/Table attribute using Spectrum REST API?

Environment

Spectrum:  Any supported version

Resolution

Below are the syntax for this REST call.

URL
http://<hostname>:<portnumber>/spectrum/restful/model/attr/update

HTTP Method
POST

Body
XML
 
Body Content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<update-model-attrlist-request xmlns="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/request">

  <model mh="0x100009e"/> <!-- Model Handle -->

  <model-attribute-list id="0x12a6d"> <!-- List/Table attribute ID -->

    <instance oid="2" value="2"/> <!-- Table row OID and corresponding value -->

    <instance oid="3" value="3"/> <!-- Table row OID and corresponding value -->

  </model-attribute-list>

</update-model-attrlist-request>

Body Parameters
<model mh="<model_handle>"/>
Specifies the model to update.

<attribute-list id="<attribute_id>">
Specifies the attribute ID to update.

<instance oid="<instance_id_0>" value="<value>"/>
Specifies the instance id and values to update.

Additional Information

Currently is not possible to change List/Table attributes of "Internet Address" type (i.e 0x12d84 - RedundancyPreferredAddress) :

 

In the example below, we try to change the ip address value in the Instance ID "1" of the attribute to "000.000.000.000", and you will get the following error:

In the Oneclick Tomcat log file, we can see the following:

java.lang.Exception: DefaultSpectrumAttributeConfig.makeCsCValue: Object 000.000.000.000 of class java.lang.String could not be converted for attrID 0x12d84 of type CSC_INTERNET_ADDRESS
        at com.aprisma.spectrum.app.web.attribute.DefaultSpectrumAttributeConfig.makeCsCValue(DefaultSpectrumAttributeConfig.java:2000)
        at com.aprisma.spectrum.app.web.attribute.DefaultSpectrumAttributeConfig.makeCsCAttrValTable(DefaultSpectrumAttributeConfig.java:2039)
        at com.aprisma.spectrum.app.topo.web.repository.ModelRepository.writeAttrTable(ModelRepository.java:6708)

 

Engineering has debugged the code and identified the root cause of the issue, and it requires a code change to get this fixed. Actually we did not handle the INTERNET ADDRESS type for this attribute value and hence its failing when we pass internet address as a new value.
 
This is targeted to be fixed post Spectrum 22.2.7 version.

Currently, you can use CLI as a workaround: