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andy_12_5042
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Feb 02, 2011

create a method parameter for protocol type

  Is there a way I can properly do this below? I am trying to allow the protocol type to be defined in the call itself via a method. However, my lack of Python or in depth programming is killing m...
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Feb 02, 2011
It would seem I am thinking about this all wrong. So I decided to do this in a better way and just test the paramter string that I use for protocol and based on the comparison I will set it accordingly. So something like this will work fine and I will have each type defined per the icontrol SDK. I am not a big fan of if statements but since python does not appear to have a "case" as in other languages and this is a small amount of comparisons.... it will do.. This gets away from the trying to concatenate a string with a non-string object, which will not work. Anyway it may not be the best way but it seems to work ok so far..

 

 

 

p_type is a parameter to a web service call

 

 

 

proto = v.typefactory.create('Common.ProtocolType')

 

 

if p_type == "tcp":

 

p= proto.PROTOCOL_TCP

 

 

vs_def.protocol = p