ncclient:NETCONF Python client

# Copyright 2009 Shikhar Bhushan

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"TODO: docstring"

from cStringIO import StringIO

from Queue import Queue

from threading import Lock

from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET

def parse_root(raw):

    '''Parse the top-level element from a string representing an XML document.

    Returns a `(tag, attributes)` tuple, where `tag` is a string representing

    the qualified name of the root element and `attributes` is an

    `{attribute: value}` dictionary.

    '''

    fp = StringIO(raw)

    for event, element in ET.iterparse(fp, events=('start',)):

        return (element.tag, element.attrib)

class Subject:

    def __init__(self):

        "TODO: docstring"

        self._listeners = set([])

        self._outQ = Queue()

        self._lock = Lock()

    def _dispatch_received(self, raw):

        "TODO: docstring"

        root = parse_root(raw)

        with self._lock:

            listeners = list(self._listeners)

        for l in listeners:

            l.deliver(root, raw)

    def _dispatch_error(self, err):

        "TODO: docstring"

        with self._lock:

            listeners = list(self._listeners)

        for l in listeners:

            l.errback(err)

    def add_listener(self, listener):

        "TODO: docstring"

        with self._lock:

            self._listeners.add(listener)

    def remove_listener(self, listener):

        "TODO: docstring"

        with self._lock:

            self._listeners.discard(listener)

    def send(self, message):

        "TODO: docstring"

        logger.debug('queueing:%s' % message)

        self._outQ.put(message)

class Listener:

    def deliver(self, raw):

        raise NotImplementedError

    def errback(self, err):

        raise NotImplementedError