Quantum subnet-create --gateway option is ignored when used after --ip_version

This is not strictly a bug, as the CLI is operating as intended, but I agree it is confusing as hell for people new to the CLI and we should find a way to make it less confusing.

The real issue is that you were specifying --gateway AFTER the positional argument, whereas this option must be used BEFORE the positional argument. Arguments after the positional argument are passed through in the JSON request as is, but the problem is that the JSON value is actually gateway_ip, not gateway, so specifying --gateway after the positional arguments is essentially a noop.

See the description here: http://docs.openstack.org/cli/quick-start/content/quantum-cli-reference.html

Sorry for the confusion... we need an easier way to do this, as the current approach seems to confuse everyone.

Thanks, I suppose it maybe less confusing if we had two additional command options.

--network_id
--ip_subnet

quantum subnet-create --tenant_id 72e90ea837714723a2121712deadf4e6 --ip_version 4 --network_id 4373779d-0e2e-45cf-b801-a8d8de25ab1d --ip_subnet 10.0.1.0/24 --gateway 10.0.1.254 --prov_router_id=808d51cc-51b1-48d3-9d50-e275448c4818

As a suggestion,

yes, the fact that items that are positional args can ONLY be specified positionally, and cannot be specified via a flag is another good point.

we'll be talking about CLI improvements at the openstack summit next week and I think these are both topics to bring up.

The lastest quantumclient 2.2 (or 2.1.2) support known options after positional parameters, so the bug reported has been addressed. The lastest quantumclient can be used combined with Folsom Quantum.

I confirmed it works.

$ quantum subnet-create net2 10.2.2.0/24 --ip-version 4 --gateway 10.2.2.200
Created a new subnet:
+------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| allocation_pools | {"start": "10.2.2.1", "end": "10.2.2.199"} |
| | {"start": "10.2.2.201", "end": "10.2.2.254"} |
| cidr | 10.2.2.0/24 |
| dns_nameservers | |
| enable_dhcp | True |
| gateway_ip | 10.2.2.200 |
| host_routes | |
| id | c68dda9b-75cb-4f5f-a8de-b63d9027bf7e |
| ip_version | 4 |
| name | |
| network_id | 6e71cffa-d120-4f00-bbb7-cbd26bd1ccff |
| tenant_id | 5d3f1dd8a3cd4ed9a06dda8d759ef2e0 |
+------------------+----------------------------------------------+

The improvement is implemented as https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-quantumclient/+spec/options-location