Advanced Operations

The CRUD Operations section introduced performing basic CRUD operations with pynautobot. The following pages compliment that information to demonstrate additional methods for Create, Read, and Update operations. Common errors and their exceptions will be discussed in each section. Following the discussion of CRUD operations, other common uses are covered.

• Creating Records
  • Obtaining Choices
  • Creating Objects with Foreign Key Relationships
  • Creating Multiple Objects
  • Common Errors
• Retrieving Objects From Nautobot
  • Using the Get Method
  • Using the Filter Method
  • Using the All Method
• Updating Objects
  • Modifying a Record by Attribute Updates
  • Errors with updates
  • Updating objects without loading data
• Interacting With A Record
  • NAPALM
  • Accessing Field Data
  • Record Hashes and Equality Comparison
• Modifying the HTTP Session
  • Headers
  • SSL Verification
  • Timeouts
• Gathering Data from GraphQL Endpoint
  • Making a GraphQL Query
  • Making a GraphQL Query with Variables
  • The GraphQLRecord Object
  • Saving Changes