How do I create objects that have relations with other objects?

[fbreckle]

Hi,

I maintain a fork of the old (openapi 2) go-netbox at https://github.com/fbreckle/go-netbox. I specifically, and exclusively, use that library to support my terraform provider at https://github.com/e-breuninger/terraform-provider-netbox.

Since I am not really a fan of backporting the (painfully frequent) breaking api changes to my go-netbox fork, I plan to eventually migrate back to this official client.

As I planned to look at the 4.2 changes today, I figured I might as well check how a migration to this client could work by implementing the netbox_site terraform resource. Specifically, a site has a foreign-key relation to region, meaning I usually pass a region ID to go-netbox when creating the site. The region ID is an int64.

How does this work in this new client? The DcimSitesCreate function gets its values from a WritableSiteRequest. What I do not understand is how I am supposed to fill out the WritableSiteRequest object. In our example, region, it needs a NullableBriefRegionRequest. But that in turn is made from a name and slug, not by an ID.

I looked around the models and it seems this is not an issue specific to the Site object.

Basically, what I am asking is:

Can anyone provide a code example for the following workflow?

1. Create region, save ID
2. Create site where the region is set to the previously created region by ID

[nutgood]

Hey,

So this is a generated library which kinda sucks but oh well.

The way you'd accomplish that is through the AdditionalProperties map[string]interface{} that's exposed on every model.

So something like this should work:

package main

import (
	"context"

	"github.com/netbox-community/go-netbox/v4"
)

func main() {
	api := netbox.NewAPIClientFor("soemthing", "else")

	region := netbox.WritableRegionRequest{
		Name: "Test Region",
		Slug: "test-region",
	}

	regionResponse, _, _ := api.DcimAPI.DcimRegionsCreate(context.Background()).WritableRegionRequest(region).Execute()

	site := netbox.WritableSiteRequest{
		Name: "Test Site",
		Slug: "test-site",
	}

	site.AdditionalProperties["region_id"] = regionResponse.GetId()

	api.DcimAPI.DcimSitesCreate(context.Background()).WritableSiteRequest(site).Execute()

}

Keep in mind that the property name might not be region_id, you'd have to look at the api docs themselves to see what's expected.

I'll close this issue, but feel free to open it again if this doesn't answer your question.