All, I am using Zeep to connect to CUCM to perform bulk AXL transactions. Some of the objects that I need to modify accept a variable number of XML tags. For example:
I want to add an entity(calling search space), which could have a variable number of partitions associated to it. Per the WSDL:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns="http://www.cisco.com/AXL/API/11.5">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<ns:addCss sequence="?">
<css>
<!--Optional:-->
<description>?</description>
<!--Optional:-->
<members>
<!--Zero or more repetitions:--> <------------------------------------------
<member>
<routePartitionName uuid="?">?</routePartitionName>
<index>?</index>
</member>
</members>
<!--Optional:-->
<partitionUsage>General</partitionUsage>
<name>?</name>
</css>
</ns:addCss>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
I can easily script a fixed number of members:
result = service.addCss({
'name': 'SampleCSS',
'description': 'Sample CSS Description',
'members': {
'member': [
{'routePartitionName':{
'_value_1':None, 'uuid':'{07614566-ADC4-1ABB-3EB3-C08650E11CBE}'},
'index':1},
{'routePartitionName': 'Auto Register','index': 2},
{'routePartitionName': 'DNS External', 'index':3},
{'routePartitionName':{
'_value_1':'On Cluster', 'uuid':'{F7FF933E-2B63-25DB-11AF-1DDDC8F9A52E}'},
'index':4},
]}
})
print (result)
print(type(result))
res = result['return']
print("\n\n", res)
However, I am having a hard time scripting a variable number of members
I have my members stored on a dictionary:
CSSes = {
'Test1': ['Test1','Test1','07614566-ADC4-1ABB-3EB3-C08650E11CBE','Staging',1],
'Test2': ['Test2','Test2','F7FF933E-2B63-25DB-11AF-1DDDC8F9A52E', 'On Cluster',1]
}
If I am adding multiple CSS's and each has a different number of partitions(members) how do I accomplish this?
I've only been able to come up with something where every CSS has the same number of partitions assigned to it:
for css in CSSes:
result = service.addCss({
'name': CSSes[css][0],
'description': CSSes[css][1],
'members': {
'member': [
{'routePartitionName':{
'_value_1':CSSes[css][3], 'uuid':CSSes[css][1]},
'index':CSSes[css][4]}
]}
})
I'm not 100% sure I understand your scenario (mostly based on the snippets provided), but given this data set, where one CSS to be created has 2 partitions and the other has 3:
CSSs = [
{
'name': 'CSS1',
'description': 'CSS1 description',
'members': [
{
'name': 'Partition1',
'index': 1
},
{
'name': 'Partition2',
'index': 2
}
]
},
{
'name': 'CSS2',
'description': 'CSS2 description',
'members': [
{
'name': 'Partition1',
'index': 1
},
{
'name': 'Partition2',
'index': 2
},
{
'name': 'Partition3',
'index': 3
}
]
}
]
I was able to get this working by dynamically appending members, like so:
for css in CSSs:
css_data = {
'name': css['name'],
'description': css['description'],
'members': {
'member': []
}
}
for memb in css['members']:
css_data['members']['member'].append(
{
'routePartitionName': memb['name'],
'index': memb['index']
}
)
css_resp = service.addCss(css_data)