Commit 1bf70e6c authored by Donald Hunter's avatar Donald Hunter Committed by Paolo Abeni
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tools/net/ynl: improve async notification handling



The notification handling in ynl is currently very simple, using sleep()
to wait a period of time and then handling all the buffered messages in
a single batch.

This patch changes the notification handling so that messages are
processed as they are received. This makes it possible to use ynl as a
library that supplies notifications in a timely manner.

- Change check_ntf() to be a generator that yields 1 notification at a
  time and blocks until a notification is available.
- Use the --sleep parameter to set an alarm and exit when it fires.

This means that the CLI has the same interface, but notifications get
printed as they are received:

./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec <SPEC> --subscribe <TOPIC> [ --sleep <SECS> ]

Here is an example python snippet that shows how to use ynl as a library
for receiving notifications:

    ynl = YnlFamily(f"{dir}/rt_route.yaml")
    ynl.ntf_subscribe('rtnlgrp-ipv4-route')

    for event in ynl.check_ntf():
        handle(event)

Signed-off-by: default avatarDonald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241018093228.25477-1-donald.hunter@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
parent d05596f2
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