Automation

Hi

Need some assistance here please:

I am running an rpc against my qfx switch:

results = dev.rpc.get_evpn_database_information(mac_address='18:66:da:94:ab:23',normalize=True)

this is returning correctly.

when there is no entry the results is None.

But when there is an entry a etree.dump(results) gives me:

<evpn-database-information>
 <evpn-database-instance style="normal">
 <instance-name>default-switch</instance-name>
 <mac-entry style="normal">
 <vni-id>96</vni-id>
 <mac-address>18:66:da:94:ab:23</mac-address>
 <active-source>172.16.111.3</active-source>
 <active-source-timestamp>Nov 02 13:37:51</active-source-timestamp>
 </mac-entry>
 </evpn-database-instance>
</evpn-database-information>

 yet when I try to access an element by using a results.find() or results.findall() etc I always get back None??

example I have tried so far:

str1 = results.find("mac-entry")

str1 = results.find("evpn-database-information/evpn-database-instance/mac-entry")

I wish to access some elements of the response to use as input for further rpc calls.

I have used an external XPath checker website to check the syntax and all looks ok.

any comments please.

Hi

I think it should be results.find("evpn-database-instance/mac-entry") as the result is parked at <evpn-database-information> element. Let me know if it works.