Implementing base models/adapters for Nautobot side functionality.

development/Dockerfile

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ ENV NAUTOBOT_ROOT ${NAUTOBOT_ROOT}
 # and CI and local development may have a newer version of Poetry
 # Since this is only used for development and we don't ship this container, pinning Poetry back is not expressly necessary
 # We also don't need virtual environments in container
+ENV POETRY_VERSION=1.5.1
 RUN curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - && \
   poetry config virtualenvs.create false
 

development/creds.example.env

@@ -32,16 +32,16 @@ NAUTOBOT_ARISTACV_CVP_TOKEN="changeme"
 NAUTOBOT_SSOT_INFOBLOX_PASSWORD="changeme"
 
 # ACI Credentials.  Append friendly name to the end to identify each APIC. 
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_BASE_URI_NTC=https://aci.cloud.networktocode.com
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_USERNAME_NTC=admin
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_PASSWORD_NTC=super_secret_password
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_VERIFY_NTC=False
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_SITE_NTC="NTC ACI"
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_BASE_URI_DEVNET=https://sandboxapicdc.cisco.com
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_USERNAME_DEVNET=admin
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_PASSWORD_DEVNET=super_secret_password
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_VERIFY_DEVNET=False
-NAUTOBOT_APIC_SITE_DEVNET="DevNet Sandbox"
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_BASE_URI_NTC=https://aci.cloud.networktocode.com
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_USERNAME_NTC=admin
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_PASSWORD_NTC=super_secret_password
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_VERIFY_NTC=False
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_SITE_NTC="NTC ACI"
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_BASE_URI_DEVNET=https://sandboxapicdc.cisco.com
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_USERNAME_DEVNET=admin
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_PASSWORD_DEVNET=super_secret_password
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_VERIFY_DEVNET=False
+# NAUTOBOT_APIC_SITE_DEVNET="DevNet Sandbox"
 
 SERVICENOW_PASSWORD="changeme"
 

docs/user/modeling.md

@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+# Modeling
+
+This page describes how to model various kinds of fields on a `nautobot_ssot.contrib.NautobotModel` subclass.
+
+## Quick Reference
+
+The following table describes in brief the different types of model fields and how they are handled.
+
+| Type of field                                      | Field name                | Notes                                                                                                                                            | Applies to                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
+|----------------------------------------------------|---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| [Normal fields](#normal-fields)                    | Has to match ORM exactly  | Make sure that the name matches the name in the ORM model.                                                                                       | Fields that are neither custom fields nor relations                                                                                                                                                              |
+| [Custom fields](#custom-fields)                    | Field name doesn't matter | Use `nautobot_ssot.contrib.CustomFieldAnnotation`                                                                                                | [Nautobot custom fields](https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/core/en/stable/user-guides/custom-fields/?h=custom+fields)                                                                                                  |
+| [*-to-one relationships](#-to-one-relationships)   | Django lookup syntax      | See [here](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/db/queries/#lookups-that-span-relationships) - your model fields need to use this syntax | `django.db.models.OneToOneField`, `django.db.models.ForeignKey`, `django.contrib.contenttypes.fields.GenericForeignKey`                                                                                                 |
+| [*-to-many relationships](#-to-many-relationships) | Has to match ORM exactly  | In case of a generic foreign key see [here](#special-case-generic-foreign-key)                                                                   | `django.db.models.ManyToManyField`, `django.contrib.contenttypes.fields.GenericRelation`, `django.db.models.ForeignKey` [backwards](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/db/queries/#backwards-related-objects) |
+| Custom Relationships | n/a | Not yet supported | https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/core/en/stable/models/extras/relationship/ |
+
+
+## Normal Fields
+
+For normal, non-relationship, non-custom fields on a model, all you need to do is to ensure that field name on your SSoT model class matches that of the Nautobot model class. To ensure this is the case, you can check out the model either by reading the corresponding source code on [GitHub](https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot) or through the [Nautobot Shell](https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/core/en/stable/administration/nautobot-shell/) - in there you can use commands like `dir(Tenant)` to get an overview of available fields for the different models.
+
+!!! note
+    If you want to sync data into a model provided by a [Nautobot App](https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/core/en/stable/plugins/), you need to navigate to its respective source code repository. Furthermore, you may need to manually import the model if you're using the Nautobot Shell approach.
+
+## Custom Fields
+
+For [custom fields](https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/core/en/stable/models/extras/customfield/), you will need to use the `nautobot_ssot.contrib.CustomFieldAnnotation` class. Given a custom field called "Test Custom Field" on the circuit provider model, this is how you could map that custom field into the diffsync model field `test_custom_field`:
+
+```python
+try:
+    from typing import Annotated  # Python>=3.9
+except ModuleNotFoundError:
+    from typing_extensions import Annotated  # Python<3.9
+from nautobot.circuits.models import Provider
+from nautobot_ssot.contrib import NautobotModel, CustomFieldAnnotation
+
+class ProviderModel(NautobotModel):
+    _model = Provider
+    _modelname = "provider"
+    _identifiers = ("name",)
+    _attributes = ("test_custom_field",)
+
+    name: str
+    test_custom_field: Annotated[str, CustomFieldAnnotation(name="Test Custom Field")]
+```
+
+!!! note
+    Defining a `CustomFieldAnnotation` variable is necessary since custom field names may include spaces, which are un-representable in Python object field names.
+
+## *-to-one Relationships
+
+For many-to-one relationships (i.e. [foreign keys](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/db/examples/many_to_one/) or [generic foreign keys](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/contrib/contenttypes/#generic-relations)) a slightly different approach is employed. We need to add a field on our model for each field that we need in order to uniquely identify our related object behind the many-to-one relationship. We can do this using a [familiar syntax](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/db/queries/#lookups-that-span-relationships) of double underscore separated paths. Assuming we want to synchronize prefixes and associate them with locations, we may be faced with the problems that locations aren't uniquely identified by name alone, but rather need the location type as well, we can address this as follows.
+
+```python
+from nautobot.ipam.models import Prefix
+from nautobot_ssot.contrib import NautobotModel
+
+class PrefixModel(NautobotModel):
+    _model = Prefix
+    _identifiers = ("network", "prefix_length")
+    _attributes = ("vlan__vid", "vlan__group__name")
+
+    network: str
+    prefix_length: int
+
+    vlan__vid: int
+    vlan__group__name: str
+```
+
+Now, on model `create` or `update`, the SSoT framework will dynamically pull in the location with the specified name and location type name, uniquely identifying the location and populating the foreign key. In this case, the corresponding query will look something like this:
+
+```python
+from nautobot.dcim.models import Location
+prefix = PrefixModel(network="192.0.2.0", prefix_length=26, vlan__vid=1000, vlan__group__name="Datacenter")
+
+# A query similar to the following line will be used to automatically populate the foreign key field upon `prefix.create`
+VLAN.objects.get(vid=prefix.vlan__vid, group__name=prefix.vlan__group__name)
+```
+
+### Special Case: Generic Foreign Key
+
+In the case of a [generic foreign key](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/db/examples/many_to_many/), we are faced with a problem. With normal foreign keys the [content type](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/contrib/contenttypes/) of a relationship field can be inferred from the model class. In the case of *generic* foreign keys however, this is not the case. In the example of the [IP address](https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/core/en/stable/models/ipam/ipaddress/?h=ip+address) model in Nautobot, the `assigned_object` field can point to either a device's or a VM's interface. We address this the following way:
+
+```python
+from nautobot.ipam.models import IPAddress
+from nautobot_ssot.contrib import NautobotModel
+
+class NautobotIPAddress(NautobotModel):
+    _model = IPAddress
+    _modelname = "ip_address"
+    _identifiers = (
+        "host",
+        "prefix_length",
+    )
+    _attributes = (
+        "status__name",
+        "assigned_object__app_label",
+        "assigned_object__model",
+        "assigned_object__device__name",
+        "assigned_object__name",
+    )
+
+    host: str
+    prefix_length: int
+    status__name: str
+    assigned_object__app_label: str
+    assigned_object__model: str
+    assigned_object__device__name: str
+    assigned_object__name: str
+```
+
+!!! warning
+    A limitation of this approach is that we are locked into a single kind of content type per model and foreign key, unless the field names for all content types match. In this specific case, the VM interface model does not have a `device` field which will cause the `create` and `update` method of `NautobotIPAddress` to raise a `ValueError`. This is a known issue.
+
+## *-to-many Relationships
+
+For "*-to-many" relationships such as (generic) foreign keys traversed backwards or [many-to-many relationships](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/db/examples/many_to_many/), we need to employ a different mechanism. Again we start by identifying which fields of the related object we are interested in for queries **to** the model. In this case, our example will be using an `Interface` model for which we also want to sync the associated IP addresses. For our scenario, lets assume that our IP addresses can be uniquely identified through the `host` and `prefix_length` fields:
+
+```python
+try:
+    from typing import TypedDict  # Python>=3.9
+except ImportError:
+    from typing_extensions import TypedDict  # Python<3.9
+
+class IPAddressDict(TypedDict):
+    """This typed dict is 100% decoupled from the `NautobotIPAddress` class defined above."""
+    host: str
+    prefix_length: int
+```
+
+Having defined this, we can now define our diffsync model:
+
+```python
+from typing import List  # use the builtin 'list' from Python 3.9 on
+from nautobot.dcim.models import Interface
+from nautobot_ssot.contrib import NautobotModel
+
+class NautobotInterface(NautobotModel):
+    _model = Interface
+    _modelname = "interface"
+    _identifiers = (
+        "name",
+        "device__name",
+    )
+    _attributes = ("ip_addresses",)
+
+    name: str
+    device__name: str
+    ip_addresses: List[IPAddressDict] = []
+```
+
+!!! note
+    In this example we can also see a case where a foreign key (named `device`, through `device__name`) constitutes part of the `_identfiers` field - this is a common pattern as model relationships define their uniqueness across multiple models in Nautobot.
+
+Through us defining the model, Nautobot will now be able to dynamically load IP addresses related to our interfaces from Nautobot, and also set the related objects on the relationship in the `create` and `update` methods. 
+
+!!! note
+    Although `Interface.ip_addresses` is a generic relation, there is only one content type (i.e. `ipam.ipaddress`) that may be related through this relation, therefore we don't have to specific this in any way.