Merge pull request #150 from napalm-automation/develop

Release 0.5.5

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/napalm-iosxr.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/napalm-iosxr)
-[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/napalm-iosxr.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/napalm-iosxr)
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/napalm-automation/napalm-iosxr.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/napalm-automation/napalm-iosxr)
 [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/napalm-automation/napalm-iosxr/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/napalm-automation/napalm-iosxr)
 

napalm_iosxr/iosxr.py

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 # import stdlib
 import re
 import copy
-import socket
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 # import third party lib
@@ -106,20 +105,10 @@ def close(self):
         self.device.close()
 
     def is_alive(self):
-        null = chr(0)
-        try:
-            # Try sending ASCII null byte to maintain
-            #   the connection alive
-            self.device.device.send_command(null)
-        except (socket.error, EOFError):
-            # If unable to send, we can tell for sure
-            #   that the connection is unusable,
-            #   hence return False.
-            return {
-                'is_alive': False
-            }
+        """Returns a flag with the state of the connection."""
+        # Simply returns the flag from Netmiko
         return {
-            'is_alive': self.device.device.remote_conn.transport.is_active()
+            'is_alive': self.device.device.is_alive()
         }
 
     def load_replace_candidate(self, filename=None, config=None):

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-napalm-base>=0.18.0
+napalm-base>=0.25.0
 pyIOSXR>=0.51
-netaddr
+netmiko>=1.4.3

setup.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="napalm-iosxr",
-    version="0.5.4",
+    version="0.5.5",
     packages=find_packages(exclude=["test", "test.*"]),
     author="David Barroso, Mircea Ulinic",
     author_email="[email protected], [email protected]",