Re: [netmod] ?= ?==?utf-8?q? mandatory choice with non-presence container cas

Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> wrote:
> Kent Watsen <kent@watsen.net> writes:
> 
> > Hi Michal,  
> >> I agree, but these valid data were correctly printed into invalid
> >> data. I do not think printing is allowed to change the validity of
> >> data.
> >  The NP-container text is unclear.
> 
> This issue IMO has more to do with the "mandatory" statement under
> "choice". Similar problems can be caused by data nodes that depend on
> "when". For example:
> 
> choice sel {
>    madatory true;
>    leaf foo {
>        when "...";
>        ...
>    }
>    leaf bar { ... }
>    leaf baz { ... }
> 
> If "foo" exists in instance data but its when condition becomes false,
> the server is expected to remove the "foo" instance, but what next?
> The data becomes invalid, but the server can hardly include "bar" or
> "baz" on its own.

Right, so that change (that would make the when condition false) will
be rejected by the server, since the resulting config would be
invalid.

/martin

> 
> Lada
> 
> > I'm unsure if you saw the thread in NETCONF, but I filed this issue
> > over the weekend.  Please add to it, if only to include a link to this
> > thread: https://github.com/netmod-wg/yang-next/issues/88. Thanks, Kent
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