geneva.actions.action

Geneva superclass object for defining a packet-level action.

class action.Action(action_name, direction)

Bases: object

Defines the superclass for a Geneva Action.

__init__(action_name, direction)

Initializes this action object.

Parameters:

• action_name (str) – Name of this action (“duplicate”)
• direction (str) – Direction of this action (“out”, “both”, “in”)

applies(direction)

Returns whether this action applies to the given direction, as branching actions are not supported on inbound trees.

Parameters:direction (str) – Direction to check if this action applies (“out”, “in”, “both”) Returns:whether or not this action can be used to a given direction Return type:bool

static get_actions(direction, disabled=None, allow_terminal=True)

Dynamically imports all of the Action classes in this directory.

Will only return terminal actions if terminal is set to True.

Parameters:

• direction (str) – Limit imported actions to just those that can run to this direction (“out”, “in”, “both”)
• disabled (list, optional) – list of actions that are disabled
• allow_terminal (bool) – whether or not terminal actions (“drop”) should be imported

Returns:

Dictionary of imported actions

Return type:

dict

mutate(environment_id=None)

Mutates packet.

static parse_action(str_action, direction, logger)

Parses a string action into the action object.

Parameters:

• str_action (str) – String representation of an action to parse
• direction (str) – Limit actions searched through to just those that can run to this direction (“out”, “in”, “both”)
• logger (logging.Logger) – a logger to log with

Returns:

A parsed action object

Return type:

action.Action

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