Hi, I’ve created a shapshot for one of my droplets and can see it being retrieved using the a private Image: URL: https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images?private=true Response:
{
"images": [
{
"id": 34127022,
"name": "sc-sh-foundation",
"distribution": "CentOS",
"slug": null,
"public": false,
"regions": [
"sfo2"
],
"created_at": "2018-05-07T09:42:19Z",
"min_disk_size": 80,
"type": "snapshot",
"size_gigabytes": 10.78
}
],
"links": {},
"meta": {
"total": 1
}
}
But when I try to create a droplet with the image id I get an error. URL: https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets Request:
{
"name": "sc-sh-isccs",
"region": "sfo2",
"size": 109,
"image": 34127022,
"ssh_keys": [20594886],
"backups": false,
"ipv6": false,
"user_data": null,
"private_networking": null,
"volumes": null,
"tags":["sterling","isccs"]
}
Response:
{
"id": "unprocessable_entity",
"message": "You specified an invalid image for Droplet creation."
}
Can you please guide on what the issue could be?
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Thank you, I was able to identify the issue. I was sending the size as an integer id instead of a slug value. I was able to correct the request and create the droplet using the following request:
{
"name": "sc-sh-isccs-001",
"region": "sfo2",
"size": "s-2vcpu-4gb",
"image": 34127022,
"ssh_keys": [20594886],
"backups": false,
"ipv6": false,
"user_data": null,
"private_networking": null,
"volumes": null,
"tags":[
"sterling",
"isccs"
]
}
I don’t immediately see anything wrong with the snippets you provided. One thing to note is that a snapshot can only be used in the datacenter where it was created unless you first make it available in a new region. The error you’re seeing is the message that would be returned if you selected a region/datacenter where the image has not been propagated.
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