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Re: [netmod] validating a YANG action

Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> Fri, 03 May 2019 08:11 UTC

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From: Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 01:10:58 -0700
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Subject: Re: [netmod] validating a YANG action
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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:57 PM Juergen Schoenwaelder <
j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:

> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 04:15:28PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The text about invoking actions in RFC 7950, sec. 7.15 is not clear
> > about whether the ancestor data nodes have to exist.
> >
> > sec 7.15.2, para 2:
> >
> >    The <action> element contains a hierarchy of nodes that identifies
> > the node in the datastore.
> >
> >
> > The RFC does not say anything about if the data node is required to
> > exist or not.  There is no distinction between NP-container, P-container,
> > or list which are ancestors of the action node. It does not specify
> > which datastore, and that is not supplied in the <action> RPC.
> > The text specifies what must be in the <rpc> request, not in any
> datastore
> > or state data.
> >
> > It seems like the intent is that no instance test is specified at all and
> > the corresponding ancestor nodes to the action node do not have to
> > exist for the action to be invoked. (The action may succeed or fail).
> > The issue is whether there is an existence-test before invoking the
> action.
>
> We discussed actions during the work on NMDA. RFC 8342 has this text
> in section 6, in particular 6.1 says:
>
>    Actions are always invoked in the context of the operational state
>    datastore.  The node for which the action is invoked MUST exist in
>    the operational state datastore.
>
>
This only applies to a server implementing NMDA.
There is no requirement for a server implementing RFC 7950 to make this
test.


> /js
>
>
Andy


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