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Ethan_Erchinger's avatar
Ethan_Erchinger
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Apr 04, 2006

Using Python and SOAPpy with iControl

Hello,     I'm definetly a newby when it comes to SOAP, and using SOAPpy. I can call simple functions in the LocalLB/Class wsdl, like get_address_class_list(). But when trying to call somethin...
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Mark_Atkinson_5
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May 25, 2006
You can use the following patch against SOAPBuilder.py to allow SOAPpy to serialize arrays of arrays...


--- SOAPBuilder.py      2005-02-21 12:24:13.000000000 -0800
+++ /tmp/SOAPBuilder.py 2006-03-31 13:53:49.000000000 -0800
@@ -496,7 +496,10 @@
             elemsname = tag
         for i in data:
-            self.dump(i, elemsname, not same_type, ns_map)
+            if type(i) == type([]):
+                self.dump(i,'item')
+            else:
+                self.dump(i, elemsname, not same_type, ns_map)
         if typed: self.out.append('\n' % tag)

Then you can succesfully use SOAPpy 100% of iControl (haven't found a call that didn't work yet):


url = '%%s://%s:%s@%s/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi' % (admin,passwd,bigip)
ProxyBuilder = lambda x: SOAPProxy(url % 'https', namespace='urn:iControl:' + x)
sysinfo = ProxyBuilder('System/SystemInfo')
ver = sysinfo.get_version()
print "version: %s" % ver
pool = ProxyBuilder('LocalLB/Pool')
try:
    pool.create(pool_names = ['test_pool'],
                lb_methods = ['LB_METHOD_ROUND_ROBIN'],
                members = [[{'address':'172.16.17.1','port':'80'}]])
except faultType, (ErrorFrom, ErrorMessage):      faultType is defined by SOAPpy
        if ErrorMessage.find("already exists") > 0:
            print "pool test_pool already exists..."
        else:
            print "unhandled exception:", ErrorMessage
            raise