Creating a location

1. Authenticate to the cloud platform via the Python shell.

   The following variables should be available now:

   >>> base_url  # the base URL of the API
   'https://eu2-cloud.acronis.com/api/2'
   >>> auth  # the 'Authorization' header value with the access token
   {'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImMwMD...'}
   >>> tenant_id  # the UUID of the tenant to which the token provides access
   'ede9f834-70b3-476c-83d9-736f9f8c7dae'
   

2. Define a variable named location_data, and then assign the new location data to this variable:

   >>> location_data = {
   ...     "owner_tenant_id": tenant_id,
   ...     "name": "NYC Data Center"
   ... }
   

   Name	Value type	Required	Description
   owner_tenant_id	UUID string	Yes	The UUID of the tenant where the new location will be created.
   name	string	Yes	The name of the new location.

3. Convert the location_data object to a JSON text:

   >>> location_data = json.dumps(location_data, indent=4)
   

4. Send a POST request with the JSON text to the /locations endpoint:

   >>> response = requests.post(
   ...     f'{base_url}/locations',
   ...     headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json', **auth},
   ...     data=location_data,
   ... )
   

5. Check the status code of the response:

   >>> response.status_code
   201
   

   Status code 201 means that the platform has created a new location named NYC Data Center.

   A different status code means that an error has occurred. For the details, refer to “Status and error codes”.

   Also, the response body contains the location information formatted as a JSON text. When converted to an object, it will look as follows:

   >>> pprint.pprint(response.json())
   {'id': '8fcd353b-0a40-40f2-9a55-ef8137d48800',
    'name': 'NYC Data Center',
    'owner_tenant_id': 'ede9f834-70b3-476c-83d9-736f9f8c7dae',
    'platform_owned': False,
    'readonly': False,
    'version': 0}
   

6. [Optional] Store the UUID of the location and version, in case if you need to modify or delete it:

   >>> location_id = response.json()['id']
   >>> location_id
   '8fcd353b-0a40-40f2-9a55-ef8137d48800'
   >>> version = response.json()['version']
   >>> version
   0