How to use partitions with BIGREST

[rahvee]

Hi, I'm using BIGREST, and I'm able to create a BIGIP object,

f5 = BIGIP(hostname, username, password...)

I'm able to get a list of partitions:

def f5_get_partitions(f5_session: BIGIP) -> List[str]:
    result = f5_session.load("/mgmt/tm/sys/folder")  # type: List[RESTObject]
    partitions: List[str] = []
    for r in result:
        if len(r.properties['fullPath']) < 2:
            # The '/' path should be ignored
            continue
        if r.properties['fullPath'].count('/') > 1:
            # Skip things like /Common/foo and /Common/bar
            continue
        partitions.append(r.properties['name'])
    return partitions

But I haven't figured out how to load something from a partition other than 'Common'. I tried this. It doesn't work:

for partition in partitions:
    f5.load("/mgmt/tm/sys/crypto/cert", partition=partition) 

 The error I get is:

TypeError: load() got an unexpected keyword argument 'partition'

How do you load from a partition?

[Dario_Garrido]

Hello @rahvee,

BigREST is similar to use iControlREST. Have you tried with the same resources available as with iControlREST?

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K27215222

[rahvee]

It seems, by default, I actually am getting all results, so I don't need to use the `options=recursive` setting. In fact, when I try `options=recursive` I get no results. But applying the filter as shown `?\$filter=partition+eq+<partition name>` works, so that's helpful. Thanks

[JoshBecigneul]

Hi @rahvee 

The partition names are integrated into the object names. Check the examples here https://bigrest.readthedocs.io/examples.html

Hope that helps.

[rahvee]

Yes, I noticed the partition name is embedded in the response, but it's only returning results from Common. Not from any other partition. I'll try Dario's answer and see if that helps...

[rahvee]

My mistake. By default, all results *are* returned, and I only need to examine the `fullPath` property, as you said.