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kqlehman_263002
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May 12, 2016

Issue after updating to 12.0

I am a .Net developer not an F5 admin so I apologize if I don't explain this properly. I wrote an app that saves internal data-group objects to the F5 using an HttpWebRequest POST to the rest API. Be...
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cjunior
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May 13, 2016

You're right.

I made requests in both versions 11.6.0 and 12.0.0.

The request for v11.6.0, doesn't put quotes in your key and values pairs.

For the v12.0.0, it's including quotes in your keys but not in the values.

In my opinion, the v12.0.0 is closer to the truth.

Regards.

test 1:

curl -k -u "admin:admin" -X POST -d '{"name":"dg_test","type":"string","records":[{"name":"\"KEY\"","data":"\"VALUE\""}]}' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/data-group/internal --header "Content-Type:application/json"

v11.6.0

[root@bigipbeta:Active:Standalone] config  tmsh list ltm data-group internal dg_test
ltm data-group internal dg_test {
    records {
        KEY {
            data VALUE
        }
    }
    type string
}

v12.0.0

[root@bigiplab:ModuleNotLicensed:Active:Standalone] config  tmsh list ltm data-group internal dg_test
ltm data-group internal dg_test {
    records {
        \"KEY\" {
            data VALUE
        }
    }
    type string
}

test 2:

curl -k -u "admin:admin" -X POST -d '{"name":"dg_test_space","type":"string","records":[{"name":"\"KEY WITH SPACE\"","data":"\"VALUE WITH SPACE\""}]}' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/data-group/internal --header "Content-Type:application/json"

v11.6.0

[root@bigipbeta:Active:Standalone] config  tmsh list ltm data-group internal dg_test_space                                                                         ltm data-group internal dg_test_space {
    records {
        "KEY WITH SPACE" {
            data "VALUE WITH SPACE"
        }
    }
    type string
}

v12.0.0

[root@bigiplab:ModuleNotLicensed:Active:Standalone] config  tmsh list ltm data-group internal dg_test_space
ltm data-group internal dg_test_space {
    records {
        "\"KEY WITH SPACE\"" {
            data "VALUE WITH SPACE"
        }
    }
    type string
}