Working around parser logic in Genie

Hello

Today I came across the following problem: I needed to export some Cisco device data from Prime to a CSV file using Ansible.
I had some success initially: I used the show inventory parser with a 2960x and was able to export the data. However, I had some 9xxx switches in my mix, too.
When I tried using the ”show inventory” Genie parser on a Cisco 9300, I got the ”rp_dict variable not initialised” error. So the parser works great on a 2960x but on any C9xxx switch it fails miserably. Where’s the problem?
Let’s have a look at the source code of the show inventory Genie parser.

if 'STACK' in pid:
                    main_dict = ret_dict.setdefault('main', {})
                    main_dict['swstack'] = True

                if ('ASR-9') in pid and ('PWR' not in pid) and ('FAN' not in pid):
                    rp_dict = ret_dict.setdefault('slot', {}).\
                        setdefault('0', {}).\
                        setdefault('rp', {}).\
                        setdefault(pid, {})
                    rp_dict['name'] = name
                    rp_dict['descr'] = descr
                    rp_dict['pid'] = pid
                    rp_dict['vid'] = vid
                    rp_dict['sn'] = sn
                    asr900_rp = True

                # Ensure name, slot have been previously parsed
                    if not name or not slot:
                    continue

                # PID: ASR1000-RP2       , VID: V02  , SN: JAE153408NJ
                # PID: ASR1000-RP2       , VID: V03  , SN: JAE1703094H
                # PID: WS-C3850-24P-E    , VID: V01  , SN: FCW1932D0LB
                       if ('RP' in pid) or ('WS-C' in pid) or ('R' in name):
                         rp_dict = slot_dict.setdefault('rp', {}).\
                         setdefault(pid, {})
                         rp_dict['name'] = name
                         rp_dict['descr'] = descr
                         rp_dict['pid'] = pid
                         rp_dict['vid'] = vid
                         rp_dict['sn'] = sn

                # PID: ASR1000-SIP40     , VID: V02  , SN: JAE200609WP
                # PID: ISR4331/K9        , VID:      , SN: FDO21520TGH
                # PID: ASR1002-X         , VID: V07, SN: FOX1111P1M1
                # PID: ASR1002-HX        , VID:      , SN:
                elif (('SIP' in pid)  or ('-X' in pid) or \
                     ('-HX' in pid) or ('-LC' in pid) or ('module' in name and not ('module F' in name))) and \
                     ('subslot' not in name):

                    lc_dict = slot_dict.setdefault('lc', {}).\
                        setdefault(pid, {})
                    lc_dict['name'] = name
                    lc_dict['descr'] = descr
                    lc_dict['pid'] = pid
                    lc_dict['vid'] = vid
                    lc_dict['sn'] = sn

                # PID: SP7041-E          , VID: E    , SN: MTC164204VE
                # PID: SFP-GE-T          , VID: V02  , SN: MTC2139029X
                # PID: EM7455/EM7430     , VID: 1.0  , SN: 355813070074072
                elif subslot:
                    if ('STACK' in pid) or asr900_rp:
                        subslot_dict = rp_dict.setdefault('subslot', {}).\
                            setdefault(subslot, {}).\
                            setdefault(pid, {})

The problem is that the rp_dict variable won’t get initialised unless the module name meets some conditions ( e.g. : if (‚RP’ in pid) or (‚WS-C’ in pid) or (‚R’ in name): ) but the problem is that for the C9xxx switches, PIDs no longer begin with „WS-C”.

The solution is to rewrite the script or modify the values before assigning the data output to the Genie parser in Ansible.

- name: show inventory
      block:
        - name: Run show inventory
          ios_command:
            commands: show inventory
          register: show_inventory

        - name: Print my data
          set_fact:
            int_data_modify: "{{ show_inventory['stdout'][0] | regex_replace('C9','WS-C9') }}"

        - name: Print new data
          set_fact:
            inventory_data_final: "{{ int_data_modify | clay584.genie.parse_genie(command='show inventory', os='ios') }}"