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The use case here is to parse an output from a command that produces 1000s of lines of output. Instead of storing all that output into a string and passing it to the parser, we'd like to send a file object and let the parser call a provided callback after completing each record. This way, the whole output need not be in memory at once. For large outputs this makes a considerable difference in memory footprint. You can see similar support in tools like lxml - https://lxml.de/api/lxml.etree.iterparse-class.html.
Typically these commands are executed remotely using some mechanism such as paramiko which offers a way to read the output from a file object (wrapping a file descriptor). So this file object can directly be passed to textfsm to perform this iterative parsing in a streaming fashion.
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The use case here is to parse an output from a command that produces 1000s of lines of output. Instead of storing all that output into a string and passing it to the parser, we'd like to send a file object and let the parser call a provided callback after completing each record. This way, the whole output need not be in memory at once. For large outputs this makes a considerable difference in memory footprint. You can see similar support in tools like lxml - https://lxml.de/api/lxml.etree.iterparse-class.html.
Typically these commands are executed remotely using some mechanism such as paramiko which offers a way to read the output from a file object (wrapping a file descriptor). So this file object can directly be passed to textfsm to perform this iterative parsing in a streaming fashion.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: