Compatiblity to read IPRoute attribute

[ffourcot]

Hello,

We used to read IPRoute attributes to check if some options are enabled on it, like this:

from pyroute2 import IPRoute

ipr = IPRoute(all_ns=True)
if ipr.all_ns is True:
   do_something()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In [4], line 1
----> 1 ipr.all_ns is True
[...]
File pyroute2/pyroute2/netlink/core.py:339, in AsyncCoreSocket.__getattr__(self, attr)
    337 elif attr in ('_sendto', '_recv', '_recv_into'):
    338     return getattr(self.socket, attr.lstrip("_"))
--> 339 raise AttributeError(attr)

AttributeError: all_ns

How can we update our code to check this now?

[svinota]

You can check this attribute, as well as some others, in the status dictionary:

print(ipr.status)

But currently this particular all_ns functionality might be broken in the master branch. If so, let me know. And beside of that I'll add a functional test for that, it's missing now.

Pls be aware that the core is being rewritten, so some more issues might happen the nearest weeks.

[ffourcot]

I understood that current master branch is "experimental", it's fine for me. I just tried to run some of our tests suites with it, to report (and perhaps contribute to solve) emerging bugs.

Please consider all our reports as low priority, it's only to track it. So far, it looks promising.

[svinota]

I hope to keep the master branch less experimental :)

But the CI covers not all the functionality yet, thus compatibility issues.

The first priority now is to make the current master as functional as 0.8.1, though eventual API differences might happen.