struggling to create irules

Nicely done. If you've not gone through it up until now, you may want to go through the typefactory screencast that I did a while back to help get folks up to speed on how pycontrol/suds handles types. You've discovered, as have a couple of other folks, that Suds will take a normal python data structure and try to do the right thing with it. IIRC, this isn't completely consistent though, especially with nested types. So I always use the typefactory, which is much more explicit...

 

 

Anyhow, here's an example that may be useful for you (done via an iPython interactive shell session). It may save you a few lines of code.

 

In [18]: r.create.params
Out[18]: [(rules, u'LocalLB.Rule.RuleDefinitionSequence')]  This is the data structure we need to pass into the create call. Let's create the LocalLB.RuleDefinition object...
In [19]: r_def = r.typefactory.create('LocalLB.Rule.RuleDefinition')
In [20]: print r_def
(LocalLB.Rule.RuleDefinition){
   rule_name = None
   rule_definition = None
 }  This shows us what attributes we need to tickle to pass in the call. Let's do that now...
In [21]: r_def.rule_name = 'YOYO_pyControl'  The name of the rule. Now we'll actually add the iRule code.
In [22]: raw_code = '''
   ....: when HTTP_REQUEST {
   ....:        log local0. "Python - I can fly!!"
   ....: }'''  Now we'll add this to our object's rule_definition attribute...
In [23]: r_def.rule_definition = raw_code  Now we'll add it to BigIP...
In [24]: r.create(rules = [r_def])  Notice to create a 'sequence' I just treat it like a list. Let's see if it saved!
In [25]: r.get_list()
Out[25]:
[ _sys_APM_activesync,
 _sys_auth_ssl_cc_ldap,
 _sys_auth_krbdelegate,
 _sys_https_redirect, YOYO_pyControl,
 _sys_auth_ssl_crldp,
 _sys_auth_ssl_ocsp,
 nextgen-test,
 connection-limit,
 nextgen-dg-acl]

Thanks for the post and I look forward to hearing more about your project!

 

-Matt Cauthorn