Proxmox HTTP API Firewall - Doesn't return any optional values

[RaephRaeph]

Hello!
I need to get the firewall options from all my VMs via an API call. I found out that the optional parameters are not sent at all when they are at the default values.
But the API Viewer shows the default values just for dhcp, enable, macfilter, ndp as boolean 0. The other parameters have no default value according to the page

When I change one parameter once it will be always shown in the API response. Also if I change it back to the default it is shown. Is there somehow a possibility to always get the value also when they never got changed? I would need to get all the settings to store them.

Example:

This are just default values. I never changed anything!	GET /api2/json/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/firewall/options RESPONSE: {"data":{"digest":"da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709"}}
When I change one setting to something else than the default	GET /api2/json/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/firewall/options RESPONSE: {"data":{"digest":"8e5f02233dcd8bbc6a8471ef11239a113b79f1f6","policy_out":"DROP"}}
When I change the value back to default	GET /api2/json/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/firewall/options RESPONSE: {"data":{"digest":"081b176c73032674dcddbc8412e74a7c1fb0b843","policy_out":"ACCEPT"}}

The same behavior I have for all values here.

Is there a way to always get all values also when they are optional?

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[Stefan_R]

No, default values are never returned. This is currently not implemented.

The reason why you still get the value after changing it back to the default is that it will still be stored in the config file under /etc/pve/firewall/. Remove it from there and you will go back to your first example.

If it helps, you can find a JSON representation of our API schema (including default values) here: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-docs.git;a=blob;f=api-viewer/apidata.js