Handle big response

[HanfordWu]

Hi team, I am running a command "show ip route bgp" and the response is too big for my client, do you have any good idea to chunk the response?
Thanks!

[dlyssenko]

hi @HanfordWu,

currently pyeapi does not support chunked outputs. So, your option to handle very big outputs is to run the command redirecting it to a file, e.g., like this:

node.run_commands( 'show running-config >out.txt', encoding='text' )

and then read the file using underlying bash, here's just an example (there are multiple ways to achieve that):

node.run_commands( 'bash timeout 10 sed -n "50,60p" /mnt/flash/out.txt' )
[{'messages': ['!\nmanagement cli\n   command deprecated log\n!\nmanagement http-server\n   protocol http\n!\ninterface Ethernet1/1\n   speed forced 100gfull\n!\ninterface Ethernet2/1\n']}]

I'll mark this question as an enhancement request for future releases.