Pulp

Today while playing with the API to publish an existing synchronized YUM repository, I noticed that a new publish task was successfully created even though I failed to provide the distributor id:

POST https://localhost/pulp/api/v2/repositories/animals/actions/publish/
HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Encoding: utf-8
Content-Length: 172
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:55:30 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Server: Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.5

{
    "error": null,
    "result": null,
    "spawned_tasks": [
        {
            "_href": "/pulp/api/v2/tasks/2f70d70f-6002-4fdf-b43f-ad43ac9c8a8d/",
            "task_id": "2f70d70f-6002-4fdf-b43f-ad43ac9c8a8d"
        }
    ]
}

When I checked the task itself I saw that there was an error:

"Missing resource(s): distributor=None, repository=animals"

I'd argue that if a required distributor id is not provided while attempting to publish a repository, a validation error should have happened and a new task should not be created