The ynl tool uses display-hint to know when to format IP addresses in printed output, but not to parse IP addresses from --json input. Add support for parsing ipv4 and ipv6 strings. Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py index 08ad2d8a874e..c9ed356d7ed2 100644 --- a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py +++ b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py @@ -536,9 +536,11 @@ class YnlFamily(SpecFamily): try: return int(value) except (ValueError, TypeError) as e: - if 'enum' not in attr_spec: - raise e - return self._encode_enum(attr_spec, value) + if 'enum' in attr_spec: + return self._encode_enum(attr_spec, value) + if attr_spec.display_hint: + return self._from_string(value, attr_spec) + raise e def _add_attr(self, space, name, value, search_attrs): try: @@ -571,7 +573,10 @@ class YnlFamily(SpecFamily): if isinstance(value, bytes): attr_payload = value elif isinstance(value, str): - attr_payload = bytes.fromhex(value) + if attr.display_hint: + attr_payload = self._from_string(value, attr) + else: + attr_payload = bytes.fromhex(value) elif isinstance(value, dict) and attr.struct_name: attr_payload = self._encode_struct(attr.struct_name, value) else: @@ -901,6 +906,18 @@ class YnlFamily(SpecFamily): formatted = raw return formatted + def _from_string(self, string, attr_spec): + if attr_spec.display_hint in ['ipv4', 'ipv6']: + ip = ipaddress.ip_address(string) + if attr_spec['type'] == 'binary': + raw = ip.packed + else: + raw = int(ip) + else: + raise Exception(f"Display hint '{attr_spec.display_hint}' not implemented" + f" when parsing '{attr_spec['name']}'") + return raw + def handle_ntf(self, decoded): msg = dict() if self.include_raw: -- 2.47.1