source: trunk/wikifiles/geni-backbone-test/nox-console.patch

--- ./nox/src/scripts/nox-console.py.orig       2012-03-15 23:27:38.000000000 +0000
+++ ./nox/src/scripts/nox-console.py    2012-03-16 15:23:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -101,7 +101,25 @@
     print simplejson.dumps(cmd)
 sock.send(simplejson.dumps(cmd))
 if (expectReply):
-    print simplejson.dumps(simplejson.loads(sock.recv(4096)), indent=4)
+    data=""
+    while True: 
+        data += sock.recv(4096)
+        try:
+            simplejson.loads(data)
+            break
+        except ValueError:
+            continue
+     
+    result= simplejson.loads(data)
+    for i in result['node_id']:
+        for j in range (0, 16, 2):
+            if j == 14:
+                sys.stdout.write(i.zfill(16)[j] + "" +  i.zfill(16)[j+1])  
+            else:
+                sys.stdout.write((i.zfill(16)[j])+ "" + i.zfill(16)[j+1] + ":")
+
+        sys.stdout.write("\n")
+
 sock.send("{\"type\":\"disconnect\"}")
 sock.shutdown(1)
 sock.close()