Use my NSO loopback service thru the API ?

[Rodrigo H Padilla]

Hello Community

I do have the next basic service in my NSO which create a custom loopback.  Using the CLI works well
admin@ncs(config)# my_std_mgmt_loopback TEST_FOR_CISCO_COMUNNITY device my_sw loopback-intf 77 ip-address 77.77.77.77 net_mask 255.255.255.0
but I would like to use this service and create a loopback thru the API. Is that possible?  Can you give me an insight ?
NSO version: 6.1

[bigevilbeard]

Check out the NSO Postman collection HERE this will show you how to create a loopback, edit the loopback and also delete the IP and the loopback itself via the API.

Hope this helps.

[Rodrigo H Padilla]

thanks for that. Im able to create the loopback using RESTCONF. However how can I consume my service thru the NSO API?

[bigevilbeard]

The specific method that you use to consume a service through an API will depend on your programming language of choice and your preferred development environment. Which is that?

[Rodrigo H Padilla]

Im using python and request module to make API calls

[bigevilbeard · Accepted solution]

Python is the best! Check out the guide here https://developer.cisco.com/docs/nso/api/#!ncs

[Rodrigo H Padilla]

Thanks!

[cohult]

See the new $NCS_DIR/examples.ncs/development-guide/nano-services/netsim-sshkey/showcase_maapi.py for an intro example. Used by the NSO Getting Started Guide https://developer.cisco.com/docs/nso/guides/#!developing-and-deploying-a-nano-service
There are corresponding Python requests RESTCONF and CLI showcase variants too in the example.