Can NETCONF be parsed by JSON?

[louis25448]

Can NETCONF data be parsed by JSON? I've heard RESTCONF can be parsed by JSON or XML, however NETCONF can only be parsed by XML.

Is this true?

Thanks!

[AJ Cruz]

NETCONF uses XML for encoding.

I'm not aware of an option on cisco platforms to tell NETCONF to accept or produce JSON-encoded payloads.

That being said you can easily convert XML to JSON. If you're using Python the json & xmltodict libraries will help you.

[BENSLIMANE Abderrahim]

Netconf uses only XML encoding. But if you need to manipulate the XML payload in JSON you can do it over a python script if you went.