Return object for virtual parameter

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I see a question was asked quite a while ago about using virtual parameters for Hosts objects i.e I have devices that use both InternetGatewayDevice and Device models.

So I want to be able to return an object from a virtual parameter.

Without this it’s pretty hard to support both device models.

Is this possible yet?

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Thanks,

David.

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This is not directly supported. The work around is to JSON.stringify and JSON.parse the data.

Are you trying to display the device host list in a third party app? If so, I recommend putting the logic in there for data model v1 and v2. The data models in a lot of areas are so drastically different that trying to abstract all the logic away behind vparams is a losing proposition.

Here area few screenshots from our subscriber mgmt platform showing roughly the same info for data model v1 (InternetGatewayDevice.) and v2 (Device.) devices:

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Thanks for the response Dan.

I want to be able to display the device hosts list in genieacs under the “device” section.

I think what I will end up doing is having two genieacs instances, one for each model. The TR098 server will be the primary, and if a device informs using TR181, it will shunt them off to the other server.

You’re right - vparams work great until you need to store an object in the device model.

To me, this is quite a big issue. (being able to display / interact with data from different device models)

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There is already a built in way of displaying hosts that abstracts away device v1 and v2.

I’m not sure where you put this in GenieACS v1.2, but in v1.1 in our summary_paramters.yml file I have this:

Hosts:
    _object: InternetGatewayDevice.LANDevice.1.Hosts.Host
    Host name: HostName
    IP: IPAddress
    Source: AddressSource
    Active: Active
    IFace: InterfaceType
    MAC: MACAddress

Hosts2:
    _object: Device.Hosts.Host
    Host name: HostName
    IP: IPAddress
    Source: AddressSource
    Active: Active
    IFace: Layer1Interface
    MAC: PhysAddress

v1:
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v2:

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That is awesome! Didn’t know that. Thank you very much :slight_smile: