A network automation team is integrating with a legacy network management system that only supports XML-RPC for configuration changes. However, the team's new automation scripts are built around JSON-based REST APIs. The team needs to minimize development effort while maintaining compatibility with the legacy system. What should the team do?

Replace the legacy system with a modern JSON-based system

Use a middleware adapter that translates JSON to XML for the legacy system

Convert all automation scripts to use XML-RPC instead of REST APIs

Use YAML as an intermediary format between JSON and XML

A developer is writing a Python script that consumes a REST API. The API documentation says the response is JSON, but the script receives a response with a Content-Type of 'application/xml'. The script uses response.json() and raises an error. What is the most appropriate action?

Parse the response text with xml.etree.ElementTree instead of response.json()

Ignore the Content-Type and use response.json() anyway

Force response.json() to parse the XML by setting the Content-Type header

Use yaml.safe_load() on the response text

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A network automation team is integrating with a legacy network management system that only supports XML-RPC for configuration changes. However, the team's new automation scripts are built around JSON-based REST APIs. The team needs to minimize development effort while maintaining compatibility with the legacy system. What should the team do?
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A developer is writing a Python script that consumes a REST API. The API documentation says the response is JSON, but the script receives a response with a Content-Type of 'application/xml'. The script uses response.json() and raises an error. What is the most appropriate action?
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A developer is writing a script to parse a JSON response from a network controller. The response contains a top-level object with a key 'interfaces' that holds an array of interface objects. Which JSON data type is the top-level structure?
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A developer is writing a Python script that consumes a REST API. The API documentation says the response is JSON, but the script receives a response with a Content-Type of 'application/xml'. The script uses response.json() and raises an error. What is the most appropriate action?

A developer is writing a script to parse a JSON response from a network controller. The response contains a top-level object with a key 'interfaces' that holds an array of interface objects. Which JSON data type is the top-level structure?

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