500 : Can not add VM. The given name contains special characters. Only lower-case and upper-case letters, numbers, '_', '-' allowed.
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Redirected to https://intel-d3c4702-01.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com/conductor/deployments/3
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Created attachment 560048 [details]
spaces_in_deployable

Created attachment 560049 [details]
verify_pass

need to handle this error message better.

Created attachment 561655 [details]
error shown on bad deployment name

Attaching a screenshot of observed behavior.  From what I can tell, the spaces in the name are provider specific - in other words, some will allow it, some not.  We don't find this out until you attempt to launch the deployment. At this point, you get an error in the flash message, which is propagated from deltacloud.  I am using the following deltacloud versions when I receive the error in the attachment:

deltacloud-core-ec2-0.5.0-4.rc1.fc16.noarch
deltacloud-core-0.5.0-4.rc1.fc16.noarch
rubygem-deltacloud-client-0.5.0-1.fc16.noarch
deltacloud-core-rhevm-0.5.0-4.rc1.fc16.noarch
deltacloud-core-vsphere-0.5.0-4.rc1.fc16.noarch

Oops, hit submit too quickly.  So, based on what I have seen here, I think this is not a bug, just a workflow that is somewhat confusing.  Would you agree with this assessment, or am I missing something?

after explaining this in irc, wes suggested I move this to on_qa, so doing that now

Verified that, using a deployable with spaces in the <assembly name> tag, the user will see the error/warning messages below in the Conductor screen after clicking on the 'Launch' button: 

"Warnings

    Failed to launch following component blueprints:

Errors

    500 : Unhandled exception or status code (Can not add VM. The given name contains special characters. Only lower-case and upper-case letters, numbers, '_', '-' allowed.)"

See screenshot attached. 
Marking this record as 'Verified' since, as per comment 5 above, this is the first place such an error can be detected.

Versions of Aeolus and Deltacloud tested:

[root@hp-dl360g5-02 ~]# rpm -qa |grep aeolus
aeolus-conductor-doc-0.8.0-28.el6.noarch
rubygem-aeolus-image-0.3.0-7.el6.noarch
rubygem-aeolus-cli-0.3.0-8.el6.noarch
aeolus-conductor-0.8.0-28.el6.noarch
aeolus-configure-2.5.0-14.el6.noarch
aeolus-all-0.8.0-28.el6.noarch
aeolus-conductor-daemons-0.8.0-28.el6.noarch

[root@hp-dl360g5-02 ~]# rpm -qa |grep deltacloud
deltacloud-core-vsphere-0.5.0-5.el6.noarch
deltacloud-core-ec2-0.5.0-5.el6.noarch
deltacloud-core-rhevm-0.5.0-5.el6.noarch
deltacloud-core-0.5.0-5.el6.noarch
rubygem-deltacloud-client-0.5.0-2.el6.noarch

Created attachment 565409 [details]
Conductor error - Spaces in deployable assembly name

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-0583.html