Genie Parsergen Example

sla_parser.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from pyats.datastructures import AttrDict
from genie import parsergen
from genie.conf.base import Device, Testbed
from pprint import pprint


nos = "ios"

cli_output = r'''
IPSLAs Latest Operation Summary
Codes: * active, ^ inactive, ~ pending
All Stats are in milliseconds. Stats with u are in microseconds

ID           Type           Destination       Stats               Return        Last
                                                                  Code          Run
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1           udp-jitter      10.0.0.2          RTT=900u           OK             20 seconds ago
*2           icmp-echo       10.0.0.2          RTT=1              OK              3 seconds ago
'''

# Boilerplate code to get the parser functional
tb = Testbed()
device = Device("new_device", os=nos)

device.custom.setdefault("abstraction", {})["order"] = ["os"]
device.cli = AttrDict({"execute": None})

# Tabular data headers
headers = ['ID', 'Type', 'Destination', 'Stats', 'Return', 'Last']

# Do the parsing
result = parsergen.oper_fill_tabular(device_output=cli_output, device_os=nos, header_fields=headers, index=[0])

# Structured data, but it has a blank entry because of the first line of the output being blank under the headers.
structured_output = result.entries

# Delete first row as it is empty anyway
del structured_output['']

# print output
pprint(structured_output)