A more readable view for capture file of Selenium SMPPSim

LogViewer.py

import datetime
import fileinput
import shlex

##
# Usage: tail -f *.capture | python LogViewer.py
##

def construct_dictionary(line):
    # ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38787616/90101
    lexer = shlex.shlex(line, posix=True)
    lexer.whitespace_split = True
    lexer.whitespace = ','

    props = {}
    previous_key = "_na" # previous key-value's key
    for pair in lexer:
        token_list = pair.split("=", 1)
        if (len(token_list) == 2):
            props[token_list[0]] = token_list[1]

            previous_key = token_list[0];
        elif (previous_key in props):
            # to handle key value that contains seperator (,), i.e. short_message=Hello, from SMPPSim
            props[previous_key] = props[previous_key] + "," + token_list[0]

    return props

for line in fileinput.input():
    props = construct_dictionary(line);

    if ('cmd_id' not in props):
        continue

    if (props['cmd_id'] == '4'):
        print "%s : [MT] [%20s] -> [%20s] : %s" % (datetime.datetime.now(), props['source_addr'], props['dest_addr'], props['short_message'].rstrip())
    elif (props['cmd_id'] == '5'):
        print "%s : [MO] [%20s] <- [%20s] : %s" % (datetime.datetime.now(), props['destination_addr'], props['source_addr'], props['short_message'].rstrip())