tools: ynl: add a completely generic client

Add a CLI sample which can take in arbitrary request
in JSON format, convert it to Netlink and do the inverse
for output.

It's meant as a development tool primarily and perhaps
for selftests which need to tickle netlink in a special way.

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>

Author: kuba-moo

tools/net/ynl/samples/cli.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import pprint
+import time
+
+from ynl import YnlFamily
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='YNL CLI sample')
+    parser.add_argument('--spec', dest='spec', type=str, required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('--schema', dest='schema', type=str)
+    parser.add_argument('--json', dest='json_text', type=str)
+    parser.add_argument('--do', dest='do', type=str)
+    parser.add_argument('--dump', dest='dump', type=str)
+    parser.add_argument('--sleep', dest='sleep', type=int)
+    parser.add_argument('--subscribe', dest='ntf', type=str)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    attrs = {}
+    if args.json_text:
+        attrs = json.loads(args.json_text)
+
+    ynl = YnlFamily(args.spec, args.schema)
+
+    if args.ntf:
+        ynl.ntf_subscribe(args.ntf)
+
+    if args.sleep:
+        time.sleep(args.sleep)
+
+    if args.do or args.dump:
+        method = getattr(ynl, args.do if args.do else args.dump)
+
+        reply = method(attrs, dump=bool(args.dump))
+        pprint.PrettyPrinter().pprint(reply)
+
+    if args.ntf:
+        ynl.check_ntf()
+        pprint.PrettyPrinter().pprint(ynl.async_msg_queue)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()