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Here is an example in python to create a streaming session for 1000 seconds and a function to terminate a session.
| Before moving forward, make sure you have started your PacketStreamerServer. See How to start PacketStreamerServer and PacketStreamerClient |
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url = 'http://%s:8080/wm/core/packettrace/json' % controller
filter = {'mac':host, 'direction':'both', 'period':1000}
post_data = json.dumps(filter)
request = urllib2.Request(url, post_data, {'Content-Type':'application/json'})
response_text = None
try:
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
response_text = response.read()
except Exception, e:
# Floodlight may not be running, but we don't want that to be a fatal
# error, so we just ignore the exception in that case.
print "Exception:", e
exit
if not response_text:
print "Failed to start a packet trace session"
sys.exit()
response_text = json.loads(response_text)
sessionId = None
if "sessionId" in response_text:
sessionId = response_text["sessionId"]
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