Re: [netconf] restconf collections

[Robert Varga <[e-mail]>]

On 26/09/2020 20:57, Kent Watsen wrote:
>> There are 3 completely different approaches:
>>
>>   1) stateless
>>   2) stateful
>>   3) stateful snapshot
>>
>> How to efficiently iterate through data that is changing constantly?
>> This problem is harder than it looks.
> 
> Agreed.  I recommend we NOT try to solve that problem.

Unfortunately you do need to pick an interaction model to tie together
the first and second pagination requests. At the very least you need to
specify consistency guarantees between the two -- which gives them worms
juuust enough room to wiggle out of the can.

A fair answer is 'well, they are not tied together and if the datastore
moves, you are SOL' ... but then how do you make forward progress with
enough consistency to be useful in the real world? :)

At the end of the day, you will end up creating some state on the
server, which the server will need to be free to revoke at any time (due
to resource constraints, or whatever implementation-specific reasons).

Regards,
Robert