Is there a support to handle load config asynchronously?

[zorkon7]

Currently the ixnetwork.LoadConfig is taking a lot of time waiting for larger configurations to load. Requesting non blocking way to load configuration (Similar async way is found in ixnetwork.StartAllProtocols)

[ajbalogh]

Async Rest API Operations Proposal

Every method that is an operation (LoadConfig, AssignPorts, ExportConfig etc) can be executed asynchronously by specifying the async_operation to be true. If async_operation is true the method will return immediately and the .get_async_response() should be used at some point to get the original operation response.

Code generation for every operation in a class will include documentation for an async_operation parameter as follows.

class IxNetwork(Base):
...
    def LoadConfig(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """Executes the loadConfig operation on the server.

        loadConfig(Arg1=href, async_operation=False)
        ---------------------
        - Arg1 (obj(ixnetwork_restpy.files.Files)): 
        - async_operation (bool=False): True to execute the operation asynchronously.
          Any subsequent rest api calls made through the Connection class will block until the operation is complete.

        Raises
        ------
        - NotFoundError: The requested resource does not exist on the server
        - ServerError: The server has encountered an uncategorized error condition
        """    

Usage

ixnetwork = TestPlatform().Session().add().Ixnetwork

# load a configuration asynchronously (do not poll)
ixnetwork.LoadConfig(Arg1=Files('48port_raw_traffic.ixncfg'), async_operation=True)

# additional dut configuration can take place here while 
# the async LoadConfig operation is executing

# wait for the async operation to complete and get the response if any
response = ixnetwork.get_async_response()

[ajbalogh]

This is now supported in ixnetwork_restpy v1.1.0