What is a valid geographicalAddress?

[Nathan Sowatskey]

Hi

This example is based on Adam's, very useful and helpful, Postman collection here:

apic-em-samples-aradford/tools/postman at master · CiscoDevNet/apic-em-samples-aradford · GitHub

In the attached image I am trying to create a location, with the POST /location request. In this example I have a geographicalLocation value of "-34/150". I have also tried other values with varying numbers of decimal points, and also a format with a "," instead of a "/".

I have yet to find a value for geographicalLocation that works. The second image attached shows the error I am getting (note that the attempt with a comma separator gave a format error message).

So, what is an example of a geographicalLocation that does work with the 1.2 GA release please?

Many thanks

Nathan

[yawming]

Try "geographicalAddress": "37.3230/122.0322".

Quiz: where is this location :-)

I think it doesn't take minus sign ?

[Joe Clarke]

Quizzes are easier with Google :-).  It looks like Cupertino, but that should be "37.3230/-122.0322".  It's actually

Weihai, Shandong, China.

[Joe Clarke]

FYI, this works for Wollongong:

{
"locationName":"Wollongong",
"geographicalAddress":"-34.416/150.883"
}

[Nathan Sowatskey]

This one did not work for me.

It looks like minus signs are an issue here.

Regards

Nathan

[yawming]

Not for me

{ "locationName":"Wollongong", "geographicalAddress":"-34.416/150.883" } 

{ "response": { "version": 1469733244499, "startTime": 1469733244499, "endTime": 1469733244695, "progress": "Adding location has failed.", "errorCode": "Inventory collection error", "serviceType": "Inventory service", "rootId": "5dee9441-023a-4ea3-b098-4c4a9de99546", "isError": true, "failureReason": "Coordinates in geographicalAddress are invalid", "id": "5dee9441-023a-4ea3-b098-4c4a9de99546" }, "version": "1.0" }

[Joe Clarke]

Yeah, when I looked at the task, it failed with the negative coordinate.  This looks like a bug as I can't imagine what an alternate acceptable syntax would be for S and W.

[yawming · Accepted solution]

This bug has been reported a few weeks ago, should be fixed in the future release.

[yawming]

Then can we get the right format for N vs S, E vs W ? Looks like it doesn't take "-" sign.

[Joe Clarke]

Yeah, looks like the negative sign does break it.  I get a valid task ID, but it's an error.  I don't know what another valid syntax might be.  The negative sign is typical for South and West.

[Nathan Sowatskey]

Thanks guys.

Addresses with positive numbers seem to work.

Negative numbers don’t.

That works for some portion of the planet, but not all …

Regards

Nathan