teststeps: Improvements and bugfixing of teststeps

This patch introduces several improvements and small bugfixes
of teststeps. These changes were identified during implementation
of OVS/DPDK regression tests.

Patch content:
* teststeps: step aliases were implemented
* teststeps: improved filtering by regex for any step, which returns string
  or list of stings; filter will process all lines
* teststeps: support for log object
* teststeps: support for trafficgen get_results call
* teststeps: configurable suppression of step validation
* trafficgen: remove old results before traffic is executed
* trafficgen: support for flow control on/off (IxNet)
* trafficgen: support for configurable learning frames (IxNet)
* trafficgen: support for runtime changes of TRAFFICGEN_PKT_SIZES, _DURATION
  and _LOSSRATE
* vnf: flush pexpect output of previous commands
* vnf: use execute_and_wait() to ensure correct cmds order
* vnf: dpdk vHost User interface name set according to its type,
  e.g. dpdkvhostuserclient
* vswitch: support for OVS restart
* decap: simplify configuration of tunneling decapsulation tests
* settings: values of all configuration options are restored after TC execution
* modified formatting of test description used by --list
* testcase name and description is logged before its execution
* small bugfixes

JIRA: VSPERF-539

Change-Id: I550ba0d897ece89abd3f33d6d66f545c4d863e7b
Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sridhar Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com>
Reviewed-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/core/traffic_controller.py b/core/traffic_controller.py
index 5ebdc0d9..d6e7629c 100644
--- a/core/traffic_controller.py
+++ b/core/traffic_controller.py
@@ -40,13 +40,25 @@ class TrafficController(object):
         self._traffic_gen_class = traffic_gen_class()
         self._traffic_started = False
         self._traffic_started_call_count = 0
+        self._duration = None
+        self._lossrate = None
+        self._packet_sizes = None
+
+        self._mode = str(settings.getValue('mode')).lower()
+        self._results = []
+
+    def configure(self, traffic):
+        """Set configuration values just before test execution so they
+           can be changed during runtime by test steps.
+        """
         self._duration = int(settings.getValue('TRAFFICGEN_DURATION'))
         self._lossrate = float(settings.getValue('TRAFFICGEN_LOSSRATE'))
         self._packet_sizes = settings.getValue('TRAFFICGEN_PKT_SIZES')
-
-        self._mode = str(settings.getValue('mode')).lower()
         self._results = []
 
+        # update type with detailed traffic value
+        self._type = traffic['traffic_type']
+
     def __enter__(self):
         """Call initialisation function.
         """
@@ -101,18 +113,18 @@ class TrafficController(object):
                     print("Please respond with 'yes', 'y', 'no' or 'n' ", end='')
         return True
 
-    def send_traffic(self, dummy_traffic):
+    def send_traffic(self, traffic):
         """Triggers traffic to be sent from the traffic generator.
 
         This is a blocking function.
 
         :param traffic: A dictionary describing the traffic to send.
         """
-        raise NotImplementedError(
-            "The TrafficController does not implement",
-            "the \"send_traffic\" function.")
+        self._logger.debug('send_traffic with ' +
+                           str(self._traffic_gen_class))
+        self.configure(traffic)
 
-    def send_traffic_async(self, dummy_traffic, dummy_function):
+    def send_traffic_async(self, traffic, dummy_function):
         """Triggers traffic to be sent  asynchronously.
 
         This is not a blocking function.
@@ -127,9 +139,9 @@ class TrafficController(object):
              If this function requires more than one argument, all should be
              should be passed using the args list and appropriately handled.
          """
-        raise NotImplementedError(
-            "The TrafficController does not implement",
-            "the \"send_traffic_async\" function.")
+        self._logger.debug('send_traffic_async with ' +
+                           str(self._traffic_gen_class))
+        self.configure(traffic)
 
     def stop_traffic(self):
         """Kills traffic being sent from the traffic generator.
@@ -155,7 +167,7 @@ class TrafficController(object):
     def validate_send_traffic(self, dummy_result, dummy_traffic):
         """Verify that send traffic has succeeded
         """
-        if len(self._results):
+        if self._results:
             if 'b2b_frames' in self._results[-1]:
                 return float(self._results[-1]['b2b_frames']) > 0
             elif 'throughput_rx_fps' in self._results[-1]:
@@ -164,3 +176,8 @@ class TrafficController(object):
                 return True
         else:
             return False
+
+    def validate_get_results(self, result):
+        """Verify that results has been returned
+        """
+        return self._results == result