Unfortunately there's no Python-wide way of saying "this is how you run tests", and no Python-wide way of saying "please run the tests when building the wheel". If you ask me, this is obviously wrong because tests are usually written for a reason, and not just for the lulz, and it is a good thing to know that the build did not produce utter crap. Since there's no Python-ish way of achieving this, let's give up and hardcode everything. That way the test suite will be run as a part of each build. In the CI we're still taking the wheel in another VM and executing the test suite again to make sure that whatever wheel magic which had to happen happened correctly. That, however, is a different test from "is the build OK" (e.g., `auditwheel repair`), and there's still point in having an "early warning" should the build produce a non-working result. Also, it (neatly) prevents a possible scenario where a wheel was left unchecked by a second, testing CI job. Bug: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1684
Opinionated Python bindings for the libyang library
Python bindings and packaging of libyang.
We're focusing on parsing, validating and accessing YANG-modeled JSON data trees.
Essentially, just enough to get gnpy going.
Want more?
Patches welcome.
Compared to the CFFI libyang bindings, this wrapper takes care of low-level memory management.
This means no more node.free() and ctx.destroy().
We also produce prebuilt binary wheels to make installation very simple.
Usage
Loading YANG data
import oopt_gnpy_libyang as ly
c = ly.Context('tests/yang', ly.ContextOptions.AllImplemented | ly.ContextOptions.NoYangLibrary)
for m in ('iana-if-type', 'ietf-interfaces', 'ietf-ip'):
c.load_module(m)
blob = '''{
"ietf-interfaces:interfaces": {
"interface": [
{
"name": "lo",
"type": "iana-if-type:softwareLoopback",
"ietf-ip:ipv4": {
"address": [
{
"ip": "127.0.0.1",
"prefix-length": 8
}
]
},
"ietf-ip:ipv6": {
"address": [
{
"ip": "::1",
"prefix-length": 128
}
]
}
},
{
"name": "eth0",
"type": "iana-if-type:ethernetCsmacd"
}
]
}
}'''
data = c.parse_data_str(blob,
ly.DataFormat.JSON, ly.ParseOptions.Strict | ly.ParseOptions.Ordered,
ly.ValidationOptions.Present | ly.ValidationOptions.NoState)
Working with data
Libyang works with forests (sets of trees), this is how to process all the data:
for x in data.siblings():
print(f'a sibling: {x.path}')
for xx in x.childrenDfs():
print(f' {"term " if xx.is_term else "child"}: {xx.path}')
if xx.is_term:
print(f' {xx.as_term()} {" (default)" if xx.as_term().is_default_value else ""}')
Data can be accessed via their known paths, of course. Either as a full, multi-level XPath:
data["interface[name='lo']/ietf-ip:ipv6/address[ip='::1']/prefix-length"].as_term().value == 128
Or individually, one item per index:
data["interface[name='lo']"]["ietf-ip:ipv6"]["address[ip='::1']"]["prefix-length"].as_term().value
Everything is an XPath, so it's possible to take a shortcut and skip specifying keys for single-element lists:
data["interface[name='lo']"]["ietf-ip:ipv6"]["address"]["prefix-length"].as_term().value == 128
The data are provided as native Python types:
type(data["interface[name='lo']"]["ietf-ip:ipv6"]["address"]["prefix-length"]
.as_term().value) == int
Validation errors
In libyang, if an operation fails, error details are available via context.errors():
import json
wrong = json.loads(blob)
wrong["ietf-interfaces:interfaces"]["interface"][0]\
["ietf-ip:ipv6"]["address"][0]["prefix-length"] = 666
try:
data = c.parse_data_str(json.dumps(wrong),
ly.DataFormat.JSON, ly.ParseOptions.Strict | ly.ParseOptions.Ordered,
ly.ValidationOptions.Present | ly.ValidationOptions.NoState)
assert False
except ly.Error:
for error in c.errors():
assert error.path == "Schema location \"/ietf-interfaces:interfaces/interface/ietf-ip:ipv6/address/prefix-length\", data location \"/ietf-ip:address[ip='::1']\", line number 1."
assert error.message == 'Value "666" is out of type uint8 min/max bounds.'
Installing
We're producing wheels for many popular platforms. The installation is as simple as:
$ pip install oopt-gnpy-libyang
Building from source
Since this library is a Python wrapper around a C++ wrapper around a C library, source-based builds are more complex. They require:
- a C++20 compiler (e.g., GCC 10+, clang 10+, MSVC 17.2+)
libyangand its dependencieslibyang-cppand its dependencies- CMake 3.21+
Unlike the wheels already bundle all the required libraries, when building from source, libyang, libyang-cpp and all their dependencies will have to be installed first.
Also, in a from-source build these won't be bundled into the resulting package.
For an inspiration, consult our GitHub packaging recipes.
License
Copyright © 2021-2022 Telecom Infra Project and GNPy contributors. Licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.