Stcrestclient

In tccsh, parameters for `stc_create`, `stc_config`, and `stc_perform` can have value lists. These are specified as: `param="value1 value2 value3"`. It was not previously possible to specify a parameter with a list of values.

The `create()`, `createx()`, `config()`, and `perform()` methods of StcHttp can optionally take parameters as kwargs. This allows parameters to be passed as items in a dictionary, as keyword arguments, or both.

Check that session has ended

When ending a session, check that the session has ended before returning from the call. This fixes an error that sometimes happened when starting a new session immediately after ending a session with the same user and name.

Automatic file upload in automation wrapper

The automation wrapper now automatically uploads files for additional automation APIs that take an input file argument, if that argument is specified.

stchttp.perform() kwargs params

stchttp.perform() now takes optional parameters, following the command, as a dictionary or kwargs.

Perform LoadFromDatabase uploads file

The StcHttp code has been modified so that when calling `StcHttp.perform()` with "LoadFromDatabase" or "LoadFromXml", the indicated file is automatically uploaded to the server before executing the command. For example:

python
stc.perform('loadfromdatabase', DatabaseConnectionString='/tmp/sample_4.5x.tcc')


Uploads the file `/tmp/sample4.5x.tcc`, and then performs LoadFromDatabaseCommand on the file "sample_4.5x.tcc"

New adapter method: `new_session()`

The adapter, stcpythonrest.py, now has a [new_session()](https://github.com/Spirent/py-stcrestclient/blob/master/stcrestclient/stcpythonrest.py#L186-L187) public method that takes an optional `kill_session` boolean parameter. This method also returns the StcHttp object in case additional REST-API-specific functionality is needed (e.g. list sessions, end session).

Help search functionality

The help command has been updated to accept optional search arguments to be used when `list` is the help topic. For example, when using tccsh, the command: `stc_help list commands wait*`
will list all the commands that begin with "wait". Also, stchttp call equivalent is as follows:

python
stc = stcrestclient.stchttp.StcHttp(...)
stc.help('list', ['commands', 'wait*'])


The update, version 1.5.0, is available from [PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stcrestclient/1.5.0), so you can install/upgrade your stcrestclient installation with the command:


sudo pip install stcrestclient -U