[Libvirt-cim] [PATCH] [TEST] Add new functions to pool.py forpoolverificaiton through providers

[Kaitlin Rupert]

>  > I would try to leverage the NetXML class here.  You can have a function
>  > similar to dumpxml.  You can also have functions similar to
>  > xml_get_net_mac(), xml_get_vcpus() etc.  This will allow you to verify
>  > all the values of the XML, not just the IP.
> 
>   I discussed this in detail with Deepti. We'd like to define several 
> functions
>   for parsing net pool values in NetXML class. But on the tc, we can 
> only get
>   NetXML string instead of NetXML class, so we can not call the parsing 
> functions.
>   Do you know how to fix this?
>   Now, the only options is to use dump function outside of NetXML, and then
>   parse the values in the str...
> 

I would make the init() function of NetXML take a flag that allows you 
to specify whether the network is a new one or not.

If the network isn't a new one, then you can dump the XML directly 
(instead of building the XML, like what's currently being done in the 
init() function).

Having a flag like this isn't really ideal, but there's not an easy way 
to tell NetXML whether you want to init a completely new NetXML object 
or if you want to just get the XML of an existing object.

-- 
Kaitlin Rupert
IBM Linux Technology Center
kaitlin at linux.vnet.ibm.com