# `operations` – Everything RPC

class `ncclient.operations.``RaiseMode`

  Define how errors indicated by RPC should be handled.

  Note that any error_filters defined in the device handler will still be applied, even if ERRORS or ALL is defined: If the filter matches, an exception will NOT be raised.

  `ALL` = 2

    Don’t look at the error-type, always raise.

  `ERRORS` = 1

    Raise only when the error-type indicates it is an honest-to-god error.

  `NONE` = 0

    Don’t attempt to raise any type of rpc-error as `RPCError`.

## Base classes

class `ncclient.operations.``RPC`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Base class for all operations, directly corresponding to rpc requests. Handles making the request, and taking delivery of the reply.

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `DEPENDS` = []

    Subclasses can specify their dependencies on capabilities as a list of URI’s or abbreviated names, e.g. ‘:writable-running’. These are verified at the time of instantiation. If the capability is not available, `MissingCapabilityError` is raised.

  `REPLY_CLS`

    By default `RPCReply`. Subclasses can specify a `RPCReply` subclass.

    alias of `RPCReply`

  `_assert`(capability)

    Subclasses can use this method to verify that a capability is available with the NETCONF server, before making a request that requires it. A `MissingCapabilityError` will be raised if the capability is not available.

  `_request`(op)

    Implementations of `request()` call this method to send the request and process the reply.

    In synchronous mode, blocks until the reply is received and returns `RPCReply`. Depending on the `raise_mode` a rpc-error element in the reply may lead to an `RPCError` exception.

    In asynchronous mode, returns immediately, returning self. The `event` attribute will be set when the reply has been received (see `reply`) or an error occured (see `error`).

    op is the operation to be requested as an `Element`

  `error`

    `Exception` type if an error occured or None.

    Note

    This represents an error which prevented a reply from being received. An rpc-error does not fall in that category – see RPCReply for that.

  `event`

    `Event` that is set when reply has been received or when an error preventing delivery of the reply occurs.

  `is_async`

    Specifies whether this RPC will be / was requested asynchronously. By default RPC’s are synchronous.

  `raise_mode`

    Depending on this exception raising mode, an rpc-error in the reply may be raised as an `RPCError` exception. Valid values are the constants defined in `RaiseMode`.

  `reply`

    `RPCReply` element if reply has been received or None

  `request`()

    Subclasses must implement this method. Typically only the request needs to be built as an `Element` and everything else can be handed off to `_request()`.

  `timeout`

    Timeout in seconds for synchronous waiting defining how long the RPC request will block on a reply before raising `TimeoutExpiredError`.

    Irrelevant for asynchronous usage.

class `ncclient.operations.``RPCReply`(raw)

  Represents an rpc-reply. Only concerns itself with whether the operation was successful.

  Note

  If the reply has not yet been parsed there is an implicit, one-time parsing overhead to accessing some of the attributes defined by this class.

  `_parsing_hook`(root)

    No-op by default. Gets passed the root element for the reply.

  `error`

    Returns the first `RPCError` and None if there were no errors.

  `errors`

    List of RPCError objects. Will be empty if there were no rpc-error elements in reply.

  `ok`

    Boolean value indicating if there were no errors.

  `xml`

    rpc-reply element as returned.

exception `ncclient.operations.``RPCError`(raw, errs=None)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.errors.OperationError`

  Represents an rpc-error. It is a type of `OperationError` and can be raised as such.

  `info`

    XML string or None; representing the error-info element.

  `message`

    The contents of the error-message element if present or None.

  `path`

    The contents of the error-path element if present or None.

  `severity`

    The contents of the error-severity element.

  `tag`

    The contents of the error-tag element.

  `type`

    The contents of the error-type element.

## Operations

### Retrieval

class `ncclient.operations.``Get`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  The get RPC.

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `REPLY_CLS` = <class 'ncclient.operations.retrieve.GetReply'>

    See `GetReply`.

  `request`(filter=None)

    Retrieve running configuration and device state information.

    filter specifies the portion of the configuration to retrieve (by default entire configuration is retrieved)

    Seealso: | Filter parameters

class `ncclient.operations.``GetConfig`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  The get-config RPC.

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `REPLY_CLS` = <class 'ncclient.operations.retrieve.GetReply'>

    See `GetReply`.

  `request`(source, filter=None)

    Retrieve all or part of a specified configuration.

    source name of the configuration datastore being queried

    filter specifies the portion of the configuration to retrieve (by default entire configuration is retrieved)

    Seealso: | Filter parameters

class `ncclient.operations.``GetReply`(raw)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPCReply`

  Adds attributes for the data element to RPCReply.

  `data`

    Same as `data_ele`

  `data_ele`

    data element as an `Element`

  `data_xml`

    data element as an XML string

class `ncclient.operations.``Dispatch`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  Generic retrieving wrapper

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `REPLY_CLS` = <class 'ncclient.operations.retrieve.GetReply'>

    See `GetReply`.

  `request`(rpc_command, source=None, filter=None)

    rpc_command specifies rpc command to be dispatched either in plain text or in xml element format (depending on command)

    source name of the configuration datastore being queried

    filter specifies the portion of the configuration to retrieve (by default entire configuration is retrieved)

    Seealso: | Filter parameters

    Examples of usage:

        dispatch('clear-arp-table')

    or dispatch element like

        xsd_fetch = new_ele('get-xnm-information')
        sub_ele(xsd_fetch, 'type').text="xml-schema"
        sub_ele(xsd_fetch, 'namespace').text="junos-configuration"
        dispatch(xsd_fetch)

### Editing

class `ncclient.operations.``EditConfig`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  edit-config RPC

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`(config, format='xml', target='candidate', default_operation=None, test_option=None, error_option=None)

    Loads all or part of the specified config to the target configuration datastore.

    target is the name of the configuration datastore being edited

    config is the configuration, which must be rooted in the config element. It can be specified either as a string or an `Element`.

    default_operation if specified must be one of { “merge”, “replace”, or “none” }

    test_option if specified must be one of { “test_then_set”, “set” }

    error_option if specified must be one of { “stop-on-error”, “continue-on-error”, “rollback-on-error” }

    The “rollback-on-error” error_option depends on the :rollback-on-error capability.

class `ncclient.operations.``DeleteConfig`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  delete-config RPC

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`(target)

    Delete a configuration datastore.

    target specifies the name or URL of configuration datastore to delete

    Seealso: | Source and target parameters

class `ncclient.operations.``CopyConfig`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  copy-config RPC

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`(source, target)

    Create or replace an entire configuration datastore with the contents of another complete configuration datastore.

    source is the name of the configuration datastore to use as the source of the copy operation or config element containing the configuration subtree to copy

    target is the name of the configuration datastore to use as the destination of the copy operation

    Seealso: | Source and target parameters

class `ncclient.operations.``Validate`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  validate RPC. Depends on the :validate capability.

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`(source='candidate')

    Validate the contents of the specified configuration.

    source is the name of the configuration datastore being validated or config element containing the configuration subtree to be validated

    ** modified to only accept valid string as source argument. Elements no longer accepted - earies - 04/22/2013

    Seealso: | Source and target parameters

class `ncclient.operations.``Commit`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  commit RPC. Depends on the :candidate capability, and the :confirmed-commit.

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`(confirmed=False, timeout=None, persist=None)

    Commit the candidate configuration as the device’s new current configuration. Depends on the :candidate capability.

    A confirmed commit (i.e. if confirmed is True) is reverted if there is no followup commit within the timeout interval. If no timeout is specified the confirm timeout defaults to 600 seconds (10 minutes). A confirming commit may have the confirmed parameter but this is not required. Depends on the :confirmed-commit capability.

    confirmed whether this is a confirmed commit

    timeout specifies the confirm timeout in seconds

    persist make the confirmed commit survive a session termination, and set a token on the ongoing confirmed commit

class `ncclient.operations.``DiscardChanges`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  discard-changes RPC. Depends on the :candidate capability.

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`()

    Revert the candidate configuration to the currently running configuration. Any uncommitted changes are discarded.

### Locking

class `ncclient.operations.``Lock`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  lock RPC

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`(target='candidate')

    Allows the client to lock the configuration system of a device.

    target is the name of the configuration datastore to lock

class `ncclient.operations.``Unlock`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  unlock RPC

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`(target='candidate')

    Release a configuration lock, previously obtained with the lock operation.

    target is the name of the configuration datastore to unlock

### Session

class `ncclient.operations.``CloseSession`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  close-session RPC. The connection to NETCONF server is also closed.

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`()

    Request graceful termination of the NETCONF session, and also close the transport.

class `ncclient.operations.``KillSession`(session, device_handler, async=False, timeout=30, raise_mode=0)

  Bases: `ncclient.operations.rpc.RPC`

  kill-session RPC.

  session is the `Session` instance

  device_handler” is the :class:`~ncclient.devices..*DeviceHandler` instance

  async specifies whether the request is to be made asynchronously, see `is_async`

  timeout is the timeout for a synchronous request, see `timeout`

  raise_mode specifies the exception raising mode, see `raise_mode`

  `request`(session_id)

    Force the termination of a NETCONF session (not the current one!)

    session_id is the session identifier of the NETCONF session to be terminated as a string

## Exceptions

exception `ncclient.operations.``OperationError`

  Bases: `ncclient.NCClientError`

exception `ncclient.operations.``MissingCapabilityError`

  Bases: `ncclient.NCClientError`

exception `ncclient.operations.``TimeoutExpiredError`

  Bases: `ncclient.NCClientError`