Fix huawei bgp route and plugin validation/transform order#327
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Huawei has pagination by default and when the output exceeds 24 lines it expects the user to keep scrooling to display the output. This makes the netmiko time out. By passing "| no-more" the pagination will be disabled for the command
Create builtin plugin to transform input field before passing to Huawei device
Transformation must occur after validation, or else the transformation will possibly make the validation fail
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Description
| no-moreto the command, disableing the CLI paginationIP/MASKtoIP MASKas accepted by the Huawei CLIRelated Issues
Fixes #315
Fixes #187
Motivation and Context
Some built-in directives do not work on Huawei devices and Huawei routers are very popular in Brazil.
Tests
Tested changes on Debian 13 (trixie/sid) with Podman 4.9.3. All tests were made building the image with the compose file and executed as container, so Python, Next and everything else were in the versions defined on the Dockerfile.
Tested on two Huawei NE8000 Routers with multiple inputs: IPv4, IPv6, IPv4/mask, IPv6/mask