Rest API fails to return data for specific volumes when searching by volume name

Applies to

• ONTAP 9
• Rest API

Issue

• Querying a volume with rest by volume name returns no results, however querying the same volume by UUID returns results.

curl -X GET "https://1.2.3.4/api/storage/volumes?is_constituent=false&name=vol1&return_records=true&return_timeout=15" -H  "accept: application/json" -H  "authorization: Basic AAWWYYTT123456789="
 

{
  "records": [ ],
  "num_records": 0
}

curl -X GET "https://1.2.3.4/api/storage/volumes?is_constituent=false&uuid=123456789-1234-1234-1234-123456789123&return_records=true&return_timeout=15" -H  "accept: application/json" -H  "authorization: Basic AAWWYYTT123456789="

{
  "records": [
    {
      "uuid": "123456789-1234-1234-1234-123456789123",
      "name": "vol1"
    }
  ],
  "num_records": 1
}