NFVBENCH-11 Cannot override extra_specs in flavor using -c1.0.3

Add a whitelist for keys that can't be verified

Change-Id: I8d56cb850fb133eec0097ae80f6ee5f827e651c6
Signed-off-by: ahothan <ahothan@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/nfvbench/nfvbench.py b/nfvbench/nfvbench.py
index e9594d5..b36d328 100644
--- a/nfvbench/nfvbench.py
+++ b/nfvbench/nfvbench.py
@@ -461,15 +461,17 @@ def main():
 
         config.name = ''
         if opts.config:
+            # do not check extra_specs in flavor as it can contain any key/value pairs
+            whitelist_keys = ['extra_specs']
             # override default config options with start config at path parsed from CLI
             # check if it is an inline yaml/json config or a file name
             if os.path.isfile(opts.config):
                 LOG.info('Loading configuration file: ' + opts.config)
-                config = config_load(opts.config, config)
+                config = config_load(opts.config, config, whitelist_keys)
                 config.name = os.path.basename(opts.config)
             else:
                 LOG.info('Loading configuration string: ' + opts.config)
-                config = config_loads(opts.config, config)
+                config = config_loads(opts.config, config, whitelist_keys)
 
         # traffic profile override options
         override_custom_traffic(config, opts.frame_sizes, opts.unidir)