tools: ynl: allow passing binary data

Recent changes made us assume that input for binary data is in hex.
When using YNL as a Python library it's possible to pass in raw bytes.
Bring the ability to do that back.

Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230824003056.1436637-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py
index 6951bcc..fa4f1c2 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py
@@ -410,7 +410,12 @@ class YnlFamily(SpecFamily):
         elif attr["type"] == 'string':
             attr_payload = str(value).encode('ascii') + b'\x00'
         elif attr["type"] == 'binary':
-            attr_payload = bytes.fromhex(value)
+            if isinstance(value, bytes):
+                attr_payload = value
+            elif isinstance(value, str):
+                attr_payload = bytes.fromhex(value)
+            else:
+                raise Exception(f'Unknown type for binary attribute, value: {value}')
         elif attr['type'] in NlAttr.type_formats:
             format = NlAttr.get_format(attr['type'], attr.byte_order)
             attr_payload = format.pack(int(value))