Re: [netconf] Question about NETCONF errors

"Ivory, William" <william.ivory@intl.att.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a question about the appropriate error to return (if indeed it
> is an error) in the following case.  If I have a top-level YANG
> container node in my configuration that's non-presence, then there are 2
> possible responses:
> 
> (a) config present, returned, no error
> 
> (b) no config present, no data returned
> 
> Is the latter an error case (eg 'unknown-element') or should that only
> be returned for a node that cannot exist, rather than one that simply
> doesn't exist in the current configuration?

Which rpc operation do you send?  I'm guessing a get or get-config
with a subtree filter that selects the container.  These operations do
not return errors if the data is not present, they simply don't return
the data.

/martin

> 
> I've looked at RFC-6241, but didn't find the error descriptions terribly
> helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> William
> 
> 
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