Engine geolocation

[EtienneMILON]

Hello David,

How can I retrieve the geolocation from engine with smc-python? I found nothing in doc.

Etienne

[sebbbastien]

Hi Etienne,

I'll try to help you, but maybe David will have a better way to do.

You can access to engine geolocation using "data.data":

In [13]: from smc.core.engines import Engine                                                                                                                                                                                                   

In [14]: engine = Engine('myfw')                                                                                                                                                                                                      

In [15]: engine.data.data['geolocation_ref']                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Out[15]: 'http://smc:8082/6.5/elements/geolocation/5'

You can get a Geolocation object:

In [18]: from smc.elements.other import Geolocation                                                                                                                                                                                            

In [19]: Geolocation.from_href(engine.data.data['geolocation_ref'])                                                                                                                                                                                 
Out[19]: Geolocation(name=Lyon)

You need to use last develop branch version (0.7.0-b12)

Hope that help,

Best regards,

[gabstopper]

Thanks Sebastien, You are absolutely correct. All elements will store metadata (name, href, type) which indicates where in the SMC API the element resides as well as a lazy loaded dict cache, like you mentioned is stored in the element's data attribute. The geolocation_ref was not available until 6.5.x so it may fail if you are on earlier versions. I just posted a helper method on the engine itself and pushed an update. You can access this way:

>>> from smc import session
>>> session.login()
>>> from smc.core.engine import Engine
>>> engine = Engine('azure')
>>> print(engine.geolocation)
None
>>> from smc.elements.other import Geolocation
>>> geo = Geolocation.create(name='MyGeo', latitude='44.97997', longitude='-93.26384')
>>> geo
Geolocation(name=MyGeo)
>>> engine.geolocation = geo
>>> engine.update()
'http://172.18.1.26:8082/6.5/elements/single_fw/610'
>>> engine.geolocation
Geolocation(name=MyGeo)
>>> 

Otherwise you can always use the low level data dict to update an element like sebbbastien mentions.

[EtienneMILON]

Hi, Thank you both for answers, it helps. Best Regards,