Updating 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. Assign the location_id variable the UUID of a location created via the API or a location found in tenant’s locations:

   >>> location_id = created_location_id
   >>> location_id
   '8fcd353b-0a40-40f2-9a55-ef8137d48800'
   

3. Fetch the revision number of the location as described in the chapters above. The following variable should be available now:

   >>> version
   0
   

4. Define a variable named location_data, and then assign the location information to update to this variable:

   >>> location_data = {
   ...     "name": "Moscow Data Center",
   ...     "version": version
   ... }
   

   Name	Value type	Required	Description
   name	string	Yes	The new name of the location.
   version	number	Yes	Revision number.

5. Convert the location_data object to a JSON text:

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

6. Send a PUT request with the JSON text to the /locations/{location_id} endpoint:

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

7. Check the status code of the response:

   >>> response.status_code
   200
   

   Status code 200 means that the location has been updated.

   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 updated 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': 'Moscow Data Center',
    'owner_tenant_id': '0bb386ae-e66d-4e7b-84fb-cddcf60002de',
    'platform_owned': True,
    'readonly': False,
    'version': 1}