How to retrieve Dispatch result xml

[kevin-fibich]

Dispatching rpc like get-software-information does not make much sense if you cannot get the result xml.
Is there any way to retrieve it?

[scott-carrion]

@kevin-fibich I know that this is over 4 years old, but I actually know the answer to this.

In short, the API does not actually return anything for dispatching RPCs, among other things, so it's inaccessible to Robot Framework. This is a simple fix: Just add a "return" to every call to ncclient.

This project is unmaintained, as evidenced by the description saying [Maintainer Required]. Though I asked the author @vkosuri if I could take over this repo, I haven't received a reply.

So, I forked this repo and will be maintaining it with better code quality and far better documentation.
Check out this fork here: https://github.com/scott-carrion/robotframework-ncclient2

At the time of writing, this project is still in its infancy, but it fixes the problem you describe here.