Abstract

Provides an abstract implementation for building API modules

This module provides a set of classes that are used to build API modules that work with Node objects. Using this module will allow the API modules to be automatically loaded using the Node.api method.

The classes in this module should not be instantiated directly but rather provide parent class for API implementations. All API modules will ultimately derive from BaseEntity which provides some common functions to make building API modules easier.

class pyeapi.api.abstract.BaseEntity(node)

Bases: object

Base class for all resources to derive from

This BaseEntity class should not be directly instatiated. It is designed to be implemented by all resource classes to provide common methods.

node

The node instance this resource will perform operations against for configuration

Type

Node

config

Returns an instance of Config with the nodes current running configuration

Type

Config

error

Holds the latest CommandError exception instance if raised

Type

CommandError

Parameters

node (Node) – An instance of Node

command_builder(string, value=None, default=None, disable=None)

Builds a command with keywords

Notes

Negating a command string by overriding ‘value’ with None or an

assigned value that evalutates to false has been deprecated. Please use ‘disable’ to negate a command.

Parameters are evaluated in the order ‘default’, ‘disable’, ‘value’

Parameters

• string (str) – The command string

• value (str) – The configuration setting to subsititue into the command string. If value is a boolean and True, just the command string is used

• default (bool) – Specifies the command should use the default keyword argument. Default preempts disable and value.

• disable (bool) – Specifies the command should use the no keyword argument. Disable preempts value.

Returns

A command string that can be used to configure the node

property config

configure(commands)

Sends the commands list to the node in config mode

This method performs configuration the node using the array of commands specified. This method wraps the configuration commands in a try/except block and stores any exceptions in the error property.

Note

If the return from this method is False, use the error property to investigate the exception

Parameters

commands (list) – A list of commands to be sent to the node in config mode

Returns

True if the commands are executed without exception otherwise

False is returned

configure_interface(name, commands)

Configures the specified interface with the commands

Parameters

• name (str) – The interface name to configure

• commands – The commands to configure in the interface

Returns

True if the commands completed successfully

property error

get_block(parent, config='running_config')

Scans the config and returns a block of code

Parameters

• parent (str) – The parent string to search the config for and return the block

• config (str) – A text config string to be searched. Default is to search the running-config of the Node.

Returns

A string object that represents the block from the config. If the parent string is not found, then this method will return None.

property version_number

class pyeapi.api.abstract.Entity(node)

Bases: pyeapi.api.abstract.BaseEntity, collections.abc.Callable

Abstract class for building Entity resources

The Entity class provides an abstract implementation that allows for building an API configuration resource. The Entity class should not be directly instantiated. It is used in instances where a single config entity is appropriate in the configuration.

Examples of Entity candidates include global spanning tree

get()

class pyeapi.api.abstract.EntityCollection(node)

Bases: pyeapi.api.abstract.BaseEntity, collections.abc.Mapping

Abstract class for building EntityCollection resources

The EntityCollection class provides an abstract implementat that allows for building API configuration resources with multiple resources. The EntityCollection class should not be directly instantiated.

Examples of an EntityCollection candidate include VLANs and interfaces

get(k[, d]) → D[k] if k in D, else d.  d defaults to None.

getall()