- Add support for `parse_genie` to Response object; obviously really only for Cisco devices at this point unless
there are parsers floating around out there for other platforms I don't know about!
- Add an `atexit` function for the ssh2 transport which forcibly closes the connection. This fixes a bug where if a
user did not manually close the connection (or use a context manager for the connection) the script would hang open
until an interrupt.
- Added a `GenericDriver` for those with non-core platforms. The `GenericDriver` has a really broad prompt pattern
match, doesn't know about privilege levels or any other device specific stuff, but does provide the `send_command
`, `send_commands`, `send_interact`, and `get_prompt` methods just like the "core" drivers do. This should be a
decent starting point for anyone working on non-core platforms!
- Minor unit test improvement to cover send_commands (plural) and to cover the new `GenericDriver`
- Improved auth failure handling for systemssh using pty auth (username/pass auth)
- Add "failed_when" strings to the core drivers; these are used in the response object to help indicate if the
channel input failed or succeeded. For scrapli not super super helpful, but nornir_scrapli will benefit from this as
well!
- Modify `NetworkDriver` to inherit from `GenericDriver` -- this allowed for some clean up of how/where `Response
` objects get created/returned from. `Channel` now is much more de-coupled from whatever sits on top of it (this will
be important for some netconf testing happening soon!).
- Minor test de-duplication around ssh config/known hosts file gathering.
- Added a few simple examples for structured data (textfsm/genie) and updated existing examples a bit.
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