Setting Custom Fields via Scripts

[johannes...@googlemail.com]

Hello

I have a script (script as in netbox script that works directly with the netbox objects, not as in script that uses the REST api) that has to set a custom field of a device.

Setting regular values like name, device_type, ... is not a prolem. but the custom fields appear to be some kind of special solution. I have not found an example on how to do that properly. I tried to take a look at the netbox code, because somewhere netbox has to set the custom fields but I have not found it, which is probably because I am not deep enough into django.

Has someone found a nice example or has some code to share?

Greetings

Jo

[Brian Candler]

Yes, it has been discussed before on this list. See:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/netbox-discuss/miSCf8Akw1w/discussion

which links to other posts with examples.

[Johannes Erwerle]

Thanks, my script works now. The examples are a bit dated on the import
side of things, the required imports are currently (v2.9.4):

from extras.models import CustomField, CustomFieldChoice, CustomFieldValue
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType

But apparently the way CustomFields work will be changed in v2.10.

Greetings
Jo