How to set foreign keys via API?

Using Ralph Ralph functions questions
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Dear all,

is there any documentation on how to set foreign keys via the API? Say, I want to set the ipaddress with id=24 as gateway on the network with id=415. I tried this:

curl -svv -X PATCH -F 'type=application/json' -H 'Authorization: Token <token>' -d '{"gateway": 24 }' http://ralph:8000/api/networks/415/

but obviously it does not work that way. Until now I only managed to set the gateway via the web interface.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Andreas

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Dear Andreas,
from the OPTIONS output of curl applied to the respective node, you can infer that “gateway” is a read-only value:
“gateway”: {
“type”: “nested object”,
“required”: false,
“read_only”: true,
“label”: “Gateway”,
…

I think you should(Note, that I never did this…) try to set this via a variable at the /api/ipaddresses/ node.

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Dear Captain,

Thanks for your reply!

I tried to set it via the the /api/ipaddresses/ node. However, it is actually just a boolean which can be set {"is_gateway":true}. It is set for this particular ip but it does not show up as gateway for the network. Should there be some magic involved that does not work in this case?

As I managed to set the network’s gateway address via the web interface, I wonder how I can determine what the web interface actually does?

Thanks again,
Andreas

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It seems like it’s a bug - I’m working on a fix.