ncclient:NETCONF Python client

from ncclient import content

class HelloHandler:

    def __init__(self, init_cb, error_cb):

        self._init_cb = init_cb

        self._error_cb = error_cb

    def callback(self, root, raw):

        if content.unqualify(root[0]) == 'hello':

            try:

                id, capabilities = HelloHandler.parse(raw)

            except Exception as e:

                self._error_cb(e)

            else:

                self._init_cb(id, capabilities)

    def errback(self, err):

        self._error_cb(err)

    @staticmethod

    def build(capabilities):

        "Given a list of capability URI's returns encoded <hello> message"

        spec = {

            'tag': content.qualify('hello'),

            'subtree': [{

                'tag': 'capabilities',

                'subtree': # this is fun :-)

                    [{'tag': 'capability', 'text': uri} for uri in capabilities]

                }]

            }

        return content.dtree2xml(spec)

    @staticmethod

    def parse(raw):

        "Returns tuple of ('session-id', ['capability_uri', ...])"

        sid, capabilities = 0, []

        root = content.xml2ele(raw)

        for child in root.getchildren():

            tag = content.unqualify(child.tag)

            if tag == 'session-id':

                sid = child.text

            elif tag == 'capabilities':

                for cap in child.getchildren():

                    if content.unqualify(cap.tag) == 'capability':

                        capabilities.append(cap.text)

        return sid, capabilities

'''

from ncclient.capabilities import CAPABILITIES

from ncclient.transport.hello import HelloHandler

print HelloHandler.build(CAPABILITIES)

'''