Error retrieving ID of template: json: cannot unmarshal object into Go struct field alias.childtemplates of type []interface {}

[nishiokay]

This issue is a follow-up of xanzy/terraform-provider-cloudstack#72

This issue is still exist.
So cloudstack-terraform-provider cannot be used for older versions of CloudStack and CloudPlatform.

[Tam]

Strange enough, VM deployment using a unit test works, can't reproduce this error with this SDK itself.
Based on the mock test kindly provided by @Pearl1594 (just removed the HTTP mock server and hardcoded required params/values) I've tried the following against an instance with API level 4.11:

func TestVirtualMachineService_DeployVirtualMachineReal(t *testing.T) {
	
	var URL="https://<DOMAIN>/client/api"
	var APIKEY =  ...
	var SECRETKEY = ...

	var zoneid = "23ec4069-ede9-46b4-9236-d8e373a4ef59"
	var templateid = "450ec62f-16b1-4d04-a00b-a6fd4933e429"
	var networkids = []string{"690ef536-3996-4aaf-b45d-5501f079d6eb"}
	var serviceofferingid = "171aa1ff-3c93-4030-946a-d16e34774a76"

	client := NewAsyncClient(URL, APIKEY, SECRETKEY, true)
	params := client.VirtualMachine.NewDeployVirtualMachineParams(serviceofferingid, templateid, zoneid)
	params.SetName("testDummyVM")
	params.SetNetworkids(networkids)
	resp, err := client.VirtualMachine.DeployVirtualMachine(params)
	if err != nil {
		t.Errorf("Failed to deploy VM with given specs due to %v", err)
		return
	}

	if resp == nil || resp.Name != "testDummyVM" {
		t.Errorf("Failed to deploy VM with given specs")
	}
}

Run single unit test:

go test -v -run TestVirtualMachineService_DeployVirtualMachineReal

Result: VM appears in the management UI and the test reports success.

=== RUN   TestVirtualMachineService_DeployVirtualMachineReal
--- PASS: TestVirtualMachineService_DeployVirtualMachineReal (79.34s)

[Rohit Yadav]

Perhaps this is no longer an issue now, can you check and confirm @nishiokay @synergiator ? Thanks.

[David Jumani]

This appears to be an issue with parsing the listTemplate API response, @nishiokay could you :

• List the template (which has child templates) via the sdk
• Provide the response to the listTemplate response with the templateid 450ec62f-16b1-4d04-a00b-a6fd4933e429 (or whichever one you're having issues with on terraform)

[Tam]

In the test asset, there is no method to test listing templates.