Re: ForCES Protocol Implementation Issues

["Joel M. Halpern" <[e-mail]>]

By the way, a delete operation would not require any content.
A SET operation with the listed content is what is required, and it
does exactly what you describe, replacing the contents of the table
with an empty table.

Yours,
Joel

At 10:28 PM 9/16/2007, =?BIG5?Q?SUBSCRIBE_FORCES_B._J._Kang?= wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:42:30 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim <[e-mail]>
>wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 2007-13-09 at 00:50 -0400, B. J. Kang wrote:
> >
> >> >If you want to reset the contents of a table,
> >> >simply make the table (not an element of the
> >> >table, but the table itself) the target of a SET
> >> >operation, and provide the contents you want to
> >> >set it to  (including a 0 length content, which will create an
> empty table.)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for your answer. But it is a normal solution, or a trick?
> >
> >No, it is not a trick - rather design intent.
> >If you look at the examples, you will see some that dump the whole table
> >with GET operation. Likewise a table flush/delete will be of the same
> >nature with the appropriate operation. The path points to the object,
> >the operation says what to do.
> >Do you think we need to be explicit on this issue?
> >
>
>So if I have a table and IDs is 1.3, I can use DEL opeation with IDs
>= 1.3 and
>FULLDATA TLV = 4(only T+L, no Value) to kill all content of the table?
>
>In the article "Draft Protocol", it defines a lot of return code of
>Result TLV. But
>I have some confusion. Like "0x01 E_INVALID_HEADER", if I parse a packet and
>its common header is incorrect, where can I put the Rusult TLV to report the
>error?
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
> >cheers,
> >jamal