Original Author: Paul Lesiak - palesiak@cisco.com
Co-author: Mike Timm - mtimm@cisco.com
arya is a tool that will convert APIC object documents from their XML or JSON form into the equivalent Python code leveraging the Cobra SDK.
arya supports input in a number of formats, including XML, JSON, a directory containing multiple xml or json documents, as well as standard input. The standard input option is very useful for use as a filter in most text editors, where one can copy the JSON or XML extracted from APIC Visore or API inspector, and quickly generate the Python source code framework, which can then be modified, tokenized and rapidly turned into functional prototypes.
Note that arya is a very useful tool for the heavy lifting of converting object model into source code, however it does not validate configuration, perform advanced lookup logic or implement a number of best practices that should be followed, such as performing lookups to validate targets, referencing object attributes instead of hardcoding Dns and names, and other proper coding practices
It is strongly recommended that for advanced use cases, getting expert advice and validating your code, you reach out to Cisco Advanced Services for support. For more information, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/aci
If you run into issues with arya, please open an issue on github
Required
- Python 3.7+
Recommended:
- Git (to install from github)
Option A:
If you have git installed clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/datacenter/arya.git
Install following the instructions below.
Option B:
If you don't have git download a zip copy of the repository and extract.
cd arya
Run the setup script
python setup.py install
Check that arya can be run from the command line
$ arya.py
Once installed arya will place the file arya.py in your path, so you should be able to call arya.py from any prompt.
Usage is as such:
$ arya.py
usage: Code generator for APIC cobra SDK [-h] [-f FILEIN] [-s] [-d SOURCEDIR]
[-t TARGETDIR] [-i IP] [-u USERNAME]
[-p PASSWORD] [-nc] [-b]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f FILEIN, --filein FILEIN
Document containing post to be sent to REST API
-s, --stdin Parse input from stdin, for use as a filter, e.g., cat
doc.xml | arya.py -s
-d SOURCEDIR, --sourcedir SOURCEDIR
Specify a source directory containing ACI object files
you want to convert to python.
-t TARGETDIR, --targetdir TARGETDIR
Where to write the .py files that come from the -d
directory. If none is specified, it will default to
SOURCEDIR
-i IP, --ip IP IP address of APIC to be pre-populated
-u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
Username for APIC account to be pre-populated in
generated code
-p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
Password for APIC account to be pre-populated in
generated code
-nc, --nocommit Generate code without final commit to changes
-b, --brief Generate brief code (without headers, comments, etc)
Password for admin account on APIC
Apache 2.0. See LICENSE