Re: [netmod] Open source filtering code?

[Christian Hopps <[e-mail]>]

Still interested in any answers to this query; however, I thought I would followup..

A somewhat sub-optimal but working solution using lxml for pruning results turned out to be pretty simple after all. :)

`data` is the data lxlm.Element containing the get[-config] result, and `xpath` is an xpath string.

def xpath_filter_result(data, xpath):

    # First get a copy we can safely modify.
    data = copy.deepcopy(data)
    results = data.xpath(xpath, namespaces=NSMAP)

    # Mark the tree up
    for result in results:
        # Mark all children
        for elm in result.iterdescendants():
            elm.attrib['__filter_marked__'] = ""
        # Mark this element and all parents
        while result is not data:
            result.attrib['__filter_marked__'] = ""
            result = result.getparent()

    def prunedecendants(elm):
        for child in elm.getchildren():
            if '__filter_marked__' not in child.attrib:
                elm.remove(child)
            else:
                # Recurse
                prunedecendants(child)
                # Remove the mark
                del child.attrib['__filter_marked__']

    prunedecendants(data)

    return data

Thanks,
Chris.


Christian Hopps <[e-mail]> writes:

> I've developed a basic python based netconf server and client (https://github.com/choppsv1/netconf), but it currently lacks any decent filtering capability. I was wondering can anyone point me at any open source (or way to use open source) that implements netconf/yang subtree/xpath filtering?
>
> For this project something simple that takes a result and prunes it down would probably work OK.
>
> FWIW I looked at lxml and xpath thinking that I could translate subtree filters to xpath first and then use xpath; however, lxml xpath is not really designed to support returning results from the root of the tree. Failing to find anything else I'll probably try and make that work anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.