Working with Model Objects

A model object is an object that is returned by any of the service APIs or an object required by the APIs for create and update operations. A model object is always decorated by the ModelEntity interface.

Buildable

Any model object that is also decorated as a Buildable will always have an associated Builder and will always be able to be transformed into a builder for modifications.

Here are some examples:

Creating a new Model Object

Tenant tenant = Builders.identityV2().tenant().name("My Tenant").description("low usage tenant").build();

Image image = Builders.image().name("Ubuntu 12.04 LTS").diskFormat(DiskFormat.QCOW2).minDisk(1024).build();

Router router = Builders.router()
                          .name("ext_net")
                          .tenant(tenant)
                          .adminStateUp(true)
                          .route("10.0.1.0/24", "10.1.1.1")
                          .build();

Updating a Model Object that was retrieved or previously created (built)

tenant.builder().name("New Tenant Name");

image.builder().name("New Image Name").minRam(2048);

router.builder().tenantId("newTenantId");

As you can see in the above examples any Buildable can be created via Builders and mutated via Object.builder()