Newbie trying to improve on cisco_s300_show_lldp_neighbors.textfsm - Multiline Variable

[ntaken]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

TEMPLATE USING

Value List NEIGHBOR (\S+)
Value LOCAL_INTERFACE (\S+)
Value List NEIGHBOR_INTERFACE (\S+)
Value DEVICE_ID (([0-9a-f]{2}[:-]){5}([0-9a-f]{2}))

Start
  ^System\s+capability\s+legend
  ^\S+\s*-
  ^\s*Port\s+Device\s+ID\s+Port\s+ID\s+System\s+Name\s+Capabilities\s+TTL -> Begin
  ^\s*$$
  ^. -> Error

Begin
  ^-+  
  ^\S+ -> Continue.Record
  ^${LOCAL_INTERFACE}\s+${DEVICE_ID}\s+${NEIGHBOR_INTERFACE}\s+${NEIGHBOR}
  ^\s{28}${NEIGHBOR_INTERFACE}
  ^\s{42}${NEIGHBOR}
  ^\s*$$
  ^. -> Error

SAMPLE COMMAND OUTPUT

System capability legend:
B - Bridge; R - Router; W - Wlan Access Point; T - telephone;
D - DOCSIS Cable Device; H - Host; r - Repeater;
TP - Two Ports MAC Relay; S - S-VLAN; C - C-VLAN; O - Other

  Port        Device ID        Port ID       System Name    Capabilities  TTL  
--------- ----------------- ------------- ----------------- ------------ ----- 
gi10      f8:b1:56:ac:07:64 f8:b1:56:ac:0                        O       3482  
                            7:64                                               
gi21      28:6f:7f:0b:75:a0      Gi0      Fjallarodgardsfor      B        105  
                                          skola-AP03.net.no                    
                                          rob.se                               
gi22      a0:e0:af:ec:e9:d0      Gi0      Fjallarodgardsfor      B        118  
                                          skola-AP01.net.no                    
                                          rob.se                               
gi23      a0:e0:af:b1:c8:a0      Gi0      Fjallarodgardsfor      B        105  
                                          skola-AP04.net.no                    
                                          rob.se                               
gi24      a0:e0:af:22:3d:40      Gi0      Fjallarodgardsfor      B        114  
                                          skola-AP02.net.no                    
                                          rob.se

SUMMARY

My current modification collect all relevant information but requries som further scripting to display it correcly (Add the lists variables together).

Is there a better way to collect a multiline variable or is this a limitation of TEXTFSM?

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

[
{'neighbor': ['O'], 
'local_interface': 'gi10', 
'neighbor_interface': ['f8:b1:56:ac:0', '7:64'], 
'device_id': 'f8:b1:56:ac:07:64'},

{'neighbor': ['Fjallarodgardsfor', 'skola-AP03.net.no', 'rob.se'], 
'local_interface': 'gi21', 
'neighbor_interface': ['Gi0'], 
'device_id': '28:6f:7f:0b:75:a0'}, 

{'neighbor': ['Fjallarodgardsfor', 'skola-AP01.net.no', 'rob.se'], 
'local_interface': 'gi22', 
'neighbor_interface': ['Gi0'], 
'device_id': 'a0:e0:af:ec:e9:d0'}, 

{'neighbor': ['Fjallarodgardsfor', 'skola-AP04.net.no', 'rob.se'], 
'local_interface': 'gi23', 
'neighbor_interface': ['Gi0'], 
'device_id': 'a0:e0:af:b1:c8:a0'}, 

{'neighbor': ['Fjallarodgardsfor', 'skola-AP02.net.no', 'rob.se'], 
'local_interface': 'gi24', 
'neighbor_interface': ['Gi0'], 
'device_id': 'a0:e0:af:22:3d:40'}]

[diepes]

@ntaken it looks good.
Yes it is a TEXTFSM limitation i'm not aware of a cleaner way to capture multiline wrapped text in tables. Would be great if there was a new values listappend (xyz) type. For now you need to post-process join the list into string.

Next step: OptionA i can try to add the fix+pr or OptionB someone here can give it a go when they have time.

1. checkout (clone) the git networktocode master branch, and create new branch fixes#1052-cisco_s300_show_lldp_neighbors
2. Add the cisco output as new raw test file tests/cisco_s300/show_lldp_neighbors/cisco_s300_show_lldp_neighbors2.raw
3. update the existing TEXTFSM template to work for existing and new test ntc_templates/templates/cisco_s300_show_lldp_neighbors.textfsm
   • Test with
     1. tox
     2. single template with b=tests/cisco_s300/show_lldp_neighbors/cisco_s300_show_lldp_neighbors2 ;python3 development_scripts.py -c ${fb}.raw && cat ${fb}.yml
4. commit (squash to single commit)
5. create PR for review