API: Cable Terminations Type dcim.interface, dcim.powerport "That choice is not one of the available choices"

[metrax]

Hi,

i'm trying to get the termination data for a powerport via API, but i cannot filter by termination_type dcim.powerport.
I also tried an interface termination with dcim.interface -> same error.

What are the correct filter options?

I'm running netbox 3.3.3.

Thanks.

[candlerb]

Hmm, that's a good question. As you've observed, the api response includes those values:

...
            "id": 52,
            "url": "https://netbox.example.net/api/dcim/cable-terminations/52/",
            "display": "Cable #64 to ether9",
            "cable": 64,
            "cable_end": "B",
            "termination_type": "dcim.interface",   <<<
            "termination_id": 441,
...

The filter source code doesn't help. And that error message is not in the Netbox source, it comes from Django.

termination_type is defined here:

    termination_type = models.ForeignKey(
        to=ContentType,
        limit_choices_to=CABLE_TERMINATION_MODELS,
        on_delete=models.PROTECT,
        related_name='+'
    )

and CABLE_TERMINATION_MODELS here:

CABLE_TERMINATION_MODELS = Q(
    Q(app_label='circuits', model__in=(
        'circuittermination',
    )) |
    Q(app_label='dcim', model__in=(
        'consoleport',
        'consoleserverport',
        'frontport',
        'interface',
        'powerfeed',
        'poweroutlet',
        'powerport',
        'rearport',
    ))
)

Maybe it's the model ID then?

netbox=# select id from django_content_type where app_label='dcim' and model='interface';
 id
----
 17
(1 row)

Yep: adding /?termination_type=17 to the query works for me.

That's not very user-friendly, especially since this number will vary from system to system - but you can get the value you need from /api/extras/content-types/?app_label=dcim&model=interface

[metrax]

Thanks for your help, i will use your workaround and hope that it will be fixed sometime ;-)