Why Am I Seeing a Message Indicating an Invalid Parameter?
Background
During a cloud service API call to manage and use your cloud service resources, Cloud CLI verifies the validity of your input parameters. If you enter an unsupported parameter in a command or pass a parameter that can be used only in a profile into a command, the following error message is displayed:
[USE_ERROR] Invalid parameter: *
Solution
- Run the cloud <service> <operation> --help command and check the parameters in Params of the command output. If the parameter does not exist, check either of the following reasons:
- Using the online mode: The API does not support this parameter. Modify the parameter based on the value of Params in the command output.
- Using the offline mode: The offline data package you used may not be the latest version, resulting in a parameter verification failure. In this case, run the cloud meta download command to update the offline data package, and then run the command in 1 again. If the parameter still does not exist in the result, the API data is unavailable for Cloud CLI offline mode. Try again when the offline data package is updated, or use the online mode instead.
- If you have entered system parameters (such as cli-lang) in the command for calling a cloud service API, an error message is displayed. The parameters can only be configured in a profile by running cloud configure set --key1=value1 --key2=value2 ...
- If the preceding error message is not displayed during the command execution, but the returned value of the called API indicates a parameter error, the local cache files containing the API details may be modified. As a result, the parameter verification is inaccurate. In this case, run the cloud meta clear command to clear the cache files and run the cloud <service> <operation> --help command again to check whether the parameter is included in the parameter list of the target API.
Parent topic: Parameters
- Background
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