Usage and Examples¶

Inifile configuration¶

A sample inifile for the bloxone module is shared as bloxone.ini and follows the following format provided below:

[BloxOne]
url = 'https://csp.infoblox.com'
api_version = 'v1'
api_key = '<you API Key here>'

You can therefore simply add your API Key, and this is ready for the bloxone module used by the automation demo script. Legacy, interactive and service API keys are supported.

Overview¶

The aim of this module is to provide simple object based access to the BloxOne APIs and make it as simple as possible to code given the available swagger documentation.

There are several classes/subclasses that provide this access. The base class is b1. This acts as a parent class for the BloxOne Application APIs.

The specific API ‘trees’ are then split in to subclasses of b1:

b1platform
Note, this has been deprecated and replaced by the b1oph class. It therefore inherits from b1oph for compatibility. This may be used for specific platform elements in the future.

b1ddi
Access to the BloxOne DDI API with core methods for get, create, delete and update in addition to specific task orientated helper methods.

b1td
Access to the Infoblox TIDE API with a generic get method plus specific task orientated helper methods.

b1tdc
Access to the BloxOne Threat Defence Cloud API with a generic get, create, delete methods plus specific task orientated helper methods.

b1tdep
Access to the BloxOne Threat Defence Cloud API with a generic get, create, delete and update methods plus specific task orientated helper methods.

b1tddfp
Access to the BloxOne Threat Defence Cloud API with a generic get, and update methods plus specific task orientated helper methods.

b1tdlad
Access to the BloxOne Threat Defence Cloud API with a generic get, method.

b1anycast
Access to the BloxOne Anycast API with a generic get, create, delete and update methods plus specific task

b1authn
Access to the BloxOne On-Prem Authentication Service API with generic get, create, delete and update methods plus specific task

b1bootstrap
Access to the BloxOne On-Prem Bootstrap App API with generic get, create, delete and update methods plus specific task

b1cdc
Access to the BloxOne Data Connector API with generic get, create, delete and update methods plus specific task

b1oph
Access to the BloxOne On Prem Host API with generic get, create, delete and update methods plus specific task

b1sw
Access to the BloxOne Software Upgrade Scheduling API with generic get, create, delete and update methods plus specific task

b1ztp
Access to the BloxOne On Prem Host Host Activation API with generic get, create, delete and update methods plus specific task

In addition to the API interfaces a set of data handling functions is provided in the utils sub-module.

Basic Usage¶

Using BloxOne DDI as an example, the basic usage structure for a get is:

import bloxone
b1ddi = bloxone.b1ddi(<ini file>)
response = b1ddi.get(<object path>)
if response.status_code in b1ddi.return_codes_ok:
    print(response.text)
else:
    print(response.status_code)

Similarly for the other core functions, and classes. For details on method specific parameters, please see the class documentation

For debugging purposes, the bloxone module supports logging using logging using DEBUG.

Warning

I have attempted to keep debugging clean, however, there is still potential for the debug output to produce full data dumps of API responses.

Generic API Wrapper¶

It is also possible to use the bloxone.b1 class as a generic API wrapper with public methods for get, create, update and delete. These can be used to pass a full URL, and where appropriate body and parameters. It is of course possible to build the URL using the attributes of this class, in addition to manually entering the full url:

import bloxone
b1 = bloxone.b1(<ini file>)
url = 'https://csp.infoblox.com/api/ddi/v1/ipam/ip_space'
response = b1.get(url)
print(response.json())

url = b1.ddi_url + '/ipam/ip_space'
response = b1.get(url, _filter='name=="test_ip_space"')
print(response.json())

Examples¶

Although the basic flow of: instantiating the class with a configuration ini file; access the attributes or methods, with get almost being universal as a method, and using the swagger object paths to access the required resource. Specific examples for each of the classes, and their use, is shown in more detail in the following documents, as well as the usage of utils:

The remaining classes generally provide generic interfaces for get, create, update and delete. Usage follows the same format of instantiating the class with an ini file and accessing the generic methods using using the ‘swagger’ path for the appropriate object.