papi: remove deprecated pkg_resources

Replace use of pkg_resources with new supported APIs under importlib.

Type: fix
Change-Id: I67a7d936c634107c1ae87c0a06bea2355d906739
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/setup.py b/src/vpp-api/python/setup.py
index 784013fc606..832b6386352 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/setup.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ requirements = []
 
 setup(
     name="vpp_papi",
-    version="2.1.0",
+    version="2.2.0",
     description="VPP Python binding",
     author="Ole Troan",
     author_email="ot@cisco.com",
diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/__init__.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/__init__.py
index dc58c1e18cb..80a374ce1bb 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/__init__.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/__init__.py
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ from .vpp_serializer import BaseTypes  # noqa: F401
 from .vpp_serializer import VPPEnumType, VPPType, VPPTypeAlias  # noqa: F401
 from .vpp_serializer import VPPMessage, VPPUnionType  # noqa: F401
 
-import pkg_resources  # part of setuptools
+import importlib.metadata as metadata
 
 try:
-    __version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution("vpp_papi").version
-except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
-    """Can't find vpp_papi via setuptools"""
+    __version__ = metadata.version("vpp_papi")
+except metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+    # Can't find vpp_papi via importlib.metadata
+    __version__ = "0.0.0"
diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_papi.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_papi.py
index 30c00cd8dd3..61e67d162be 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_papi.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_papi.py
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ import fnmatch
 import weakref
 import atexit
 import time
-import pkg_resources
+import importlib.resources as resources
+
 from .vpp_format import verify_enum_hint
 from .vpp_serializer import VPPType, VPPEnumType, VPPEnumFlagType, VPPUnionType
 from .vpp_serializer import VPPMessage, vpp_get_type, VPPTypeAlias
@@ -502,10 +503,10 @@ class VPPApiClient:
                     raise e
         else:
             # Bootstrap the API (memclnt.api bundled with VPP PAPI)
-            resource_path = "/".join(("data", "memclnt.api.json"))
-            file_content = pkg_resources.resource_string(__name__, resource_path)
+            with resources.open_text("vpp_papi.data", "memclnt.api.json") as f:
+                resource_content = f.read()
             self.messages, self.services = VPPApiJSONFiles.process_json_str(
-                file_content
+                resource_content
             )
 
         # Basic sanity check