Re: [Netconf] RESTCONF modularilty

On 21 August 2014 16:26, Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net> writes:
>
> > The RESTCONF authors recently discussed adding support for filtering,
> > sorting, and paging collections (i.e. lists).  One comment was that it
> > was complex and better defined in another draft.  I agree, but more
> > importantly, RESTCONF should be fully modular, providing an ability
> > for implementations to selectively advertise support for various
> > things.  This is exactly the approach we used for the NETCONF Light
> > draft (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-schoenw-netconf-light-01), but
> > RESTCONF being a new protocol, there is no reason to not do it from
> > the get go.  This strategy was discussed in Toronto, but we felt we
> > should take it to the list before restructuring the document...
>
> I fully agree with this strategy. Support for individual capabilities
> will be indicated somehow under the "restconf" resource?
>
> ...
>
> >
> > The corollary to RESTCONF might be:
> >
> >     Base Support
> >           - the ability to GET and PUT on the top-level node using XML
> only
> >
> >     Optional Support:
> >           - the ability to do PATCH  (this is already optional)
> >           - the ability to use JSON encoding
>
> I think XML and JSON should be given equal footing, i.e. the server
> could support either or both. Perhaps the "Accept" header on the client
> side and 406/415 status codes on the server side could be enough?
>

+1 re XML and JSON on equal footing.

>
> Lada
>
> >           - the ability to POST/GET/PUT/DELETE subtrees   (PATCH too, is
> support for it is advertised)
> >           - the ability to use "select" with GET operations
> >           - the ability to use "filter" with GET on collection resources
> (i.e. lists) and event streams
> >           - the ability to do pagination with GET on collection
> resources (i.e. lists)
> >           - the ability to do sorting with GET on collection resources
> (i.e. lists)
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kent
> >
> >
> >
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