Parsing Junos XML output using jxmlease examples

jxmlease_examples.py

from __future__ import print_function
import jxmlease 

# Accessing current time from get-system-uptime
with open('get-system-uptime.xml') as xml:
    root = jxmlease.parse(xml)
    uptime = root['rpc-reply']['system-uptime-information']['current-time']['date-time'].get_cdata()
    print("uptime: {}".format(uptime))
print('\n===============\n')    

# List all software package names and comments from full xml document using XMLListNode
with open('get-software-information.xml') as xml:
    root = jxmlease.parse(xml)
    for node in root['rpc-reply']['software-information']['package-information']:
        name = node['name'].get_cdata()
        comment = node['comment'].get_cdata()
        print("package name: {}   comment: {}".format(name, comment))
print('\n===============\n')           
        
# List selected information (software package names and comments again) using a generator
with open('get-software-information.xml') as xml:
    # underscores can be used below as path and match are unused in this example
    for path, match, node in jxmlease.parse(xml, generator='package-information'):
        name = node['name'].get_cdata()
        comment = node['comment'].get_cdata()
        print("package name: {}   comment: {}".format(name, comment))       
print('\n===============\n') 

# List package-name names and comments with XMLDict's find_nodes_with_tag method
with open('get-software-information.xml') as xml:
    root = jxmlease.parse(xml)
    for node in root.find_nodes_with_tag('package-information'):
        name = node['name'].get_cdata()
        comment = node['comment'].get_cdata()
        print("package name: {}   comment: {}".format(name, comment))
print('\n===============\n')    

# Accessing Junos version in 14.2+ using jdict()
with open('get-software-information.xml') as xml:
    root = jxmlease.parse(xml)
    version = root['rpc-reply']['software-information']['package-information'].jdict()['junos-version']['comment'].get_cdata()
    print("version: {}".format(version))
print('\n===============\n')