convert to using pybindxml for scraping zone/server information from bind in server zone list

README.markdown

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Packages:
 
 * [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com)
 * Python Modules
+  * [pybindxml](https://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=pybindxml&:action=display): This is a shared library I wrote to scrape and stick into Python dict objects various server/zone data from a BIND DNS server.
   * [python-beautifulsoup](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
   * [python-dnspython](http://www.dnspython.org/)
   * [python-sqlite](http://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html) (If you will be using Sqlite for server and key storage)

binder/models.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import urllib2
 
 # 3rd Party
 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup as BS
+from pybindxml import reader as bindreader
 import dns.exception
 import dns.query
 import dns.tsig
@@ -70,28 +71,9 @@ class BindServer(models.Model):
                           String zone_class,
                           String zone_serial }
         """
-        zone_req  = urllib2.Request("http://%s:%s" % (self.hostname, self.statistics_port))
+        zone_data = bindreader.BindXmlReader(host=self.hostname, port=self.statistics_port)
-        try:
+        zone_data.get_stats()
-            http_request = urllib2.urlopen(zone_req)
+        return zone_data
-        except urllib2.URLError, err:
-            raise exceptions.ZoneException(err)
-
-        return_array = []
-        xmloutput = http_request.read()
-        mysoup = BS(xmloutput)
-        views = mysoup.findAll("view")
-        for view in views:
-            view_name = view.find("name").string
-            for zone in view.findAll("zone"):
-                zone_name, zone_class = zone.find("name").string.split("/")
-                zone_serial = zone.find("serial").string
-                if zone_class == "IN":
-                    return_array.append({"view_name" : view_name,
-                                         "zone_name" : zone_name,
-                                         "zone_class" : zone_class,
-                                         "zone_serial" : zone_serial })
-
-        return return_array
 
     def list_zone_records(self, zone_name):
         """ List all records in a specific zone.

binder/templates/bcommon/list_server_zones.htm

@@ -10,18 +10,18 @@ Server Zone List for {{ dns_server }}
   <tr>
     <th>Zone</th>
     <th>View</th>
-    <th>Class</th>
     <th>Serial Number</th>
   </tr>
-{% for current_zone in zone_array %}
+{% for current_zone, cz_data in zone_array.stats.zone_stats.iteritems %}
+  {% for current_view, cv_data in cz_data.iteritems %}
     <tr>
       <td>
-      <a href="{% url "zone_list" dns_server=dns_server zone_name=current_zone.zone_name %}"> {{ current_zone.zone_name }}</a>
+        <a href="{% url "zone_list" dns_server=dns_server zone_name=current_zone %}"> {{ current_zone }}</a>
       </td>
-    <td>{{ current_zone.view_name }}</td>
+      <td>{{ current_view }}</td>
-    <td>{{ current_zone.zone_class }}</td>
+      <td>{{ cv_data.serial }}</td>
-    <td>{{ current_zone.zone_serial }}</td>
     </tr>
+  {% endfor %}
 {% endfor %}
 </table>
 

check-dependencies.py

@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ except ImportError:
     print "Package is typically called 'python-dnspython.'\n"
     errors += 1
 
+try:
+    import pybindxml
+except ImportError:
+    print "Could not import pybindxml. This is a required module for Binder.\n"
+    errors += 1
+
 try:
     import flup
 except ImportError: