Folsom - Unable to create flavor without optional parameters

Description:
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We are unable to create Flavor when Optional parameters "swap", "os-flavor-access:is_public", "rxtx_factor", "OS-FLV-EXT-DATA:ephemeral" are not mentioned in the request body.

Though the above mentioned paramters are optional, we get Bad Request on not giving these parameters in request body.

Environment:
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Folsom

Python Nova client output for help:
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rajalakshmi_ganesan@ubuntu:~$ nova help flavor-create
usage: nova flavor-create [--ephemeral <ephemeral>] [--swap <swap>]
                          [--rxtx-factor <factor>] [--is-public <is-public>]
                          <name> <id> <ram> <disk> <vcpus>

Create a new flavor

Positional arguments:
  <name> Name of the new flavor
  <id> Unique integer ID for the new flavor
  <ram> Memory size in MB
  <disk> Disk size in GB
  <vcpus> Number of vcpus

Optional arguments:
  --ephemeral <ephemeral>
                        Ephemeral space size in GB (default 0)
  --swap <swap> Swap space size in MB (default 0)
  --rxtx-factor <factor>
                        RX/TX factor (default 1)
  --is-public <is-public>
                        Make flavor accessible to the public (default true)
rajalakshmi_ganesan@ubuntu:~$

CURL COMMAND OUTPUTS:
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1. REQUEST WITHOUT OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

rajalakshmi_ganesan@ubuntu:~$ curl -i http://15.184.64.226:8774/v2/25ecbf309f7748c6a173fabf2a673a65/flavors -X POST -H "X-Auth-Project-Id: admin" -H "User-Agent: python-novaclient" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Token: 0b78256729a848559f7a9a45e24ef554" -d '{"flavor": {"disk": 10, "vcpus": 2, "ram": 1024, "name": "flavor-122", "id": 122}}'
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Length: 141
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
X-Compute-Request-Id: req-2d7629b4-4ad5-4d50-9fb8-8bb032e4147f
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:23:19 GMT

{"badRequest": {"message": "The server could not comply with the request since it is either malformed or otherwise incorrect.", "code": 400}}rajalakshmi_ganesan@ubuntu:~$
rajalakshmi_ganesan@ubuntu:~$

2. REQUEST WITH OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

rajalakshmi_ganesan@ubuntu:~$ curl -i http://15.184.64.226:8774/v2/25ecbf309f7748c6a173fabf2a673a65/flavors -X POST -H "X-Auth-Project-Id: admin" -H "User-Agent: python-novaclient" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Token: 0b78256729a848559f7a9a45e24ef554" -d '{"flavor": {"disk": 10, "vcpus": 2, "ram": 1024, "name": "PS_flavor", "id": 333, "swap": 22, "os-flavor-access:is_public": true, "rxtx_factor": 2, "OS-FLV-EXT-DATA:ephemeral": 2}}'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Compute-Request-Id: req-36287256-1c99-4939-a72b-be741b8fcf63
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 432
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:28:12 GMT

{"flavor": {"name": "PS_flavor", "links": [{"href": "http://15.184.64.226:8774/v2/25ecbf309f7748c6a173fabf2a673a65/flavors/333", "rel": "self"}, {"href": "http://15.184.64.226:8774/25ecbf309f7748c6a173fabf2a673a65/flavors/333", "rel": "bookmark"}], "ram": 1024, "OS-FLV-DISABLED:disabled": false, "vcpus": 2, "swap": 22, "os-flavor-access:is_public": true, "rxtx_factor": 2, "OS-FLV-EXT-DATA:ephemeral": 2, "disk": 10, "id": "333"}}rajalakshmi_ganesan@ubuntu:~$ nova flavor-list
+-----+-----------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+-------------+
| ID | Name | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public | extra_specs |
+-----+-----------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+-------------+
| 1 | m1.tiny | 512 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True | {} |
| 2 | m1.small | 2048 | 20 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True | {} |
| 3 | m1.medium | 4096 | 40 | 0 | | 2 | 1.0 | True | {} |
| 4 | m1.large | 8192 | 80 | 0 | | 4 | 1.0 | True | {} |
| 5 | m1.xlarge | 16384 | 160 | 0 | | 8 | 1.0 | True | {} |
| 12 | flavor-12 | 1024 | 10 | 2 | 512 | 2 | 1.0 | True | {} |
| 333 | PS_flavor | 1024 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 2.0 | True | {} |
+-----+-----------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+-------------+