Re: [netmod] choice/case in tree diagrams

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 02:54:18PM +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > 
> > So it seems the running code got it right. ;-)
> 
> As the author of that code, I think that was purely by accident...
> 
> But I'm not convinced it is the correct solution.  We have one example
> in the other thread where someone was confused by the "rw" flag and
> thought that it implied that the node would be present in the data
> tree.
>

So what does rw mean?

(i)  The schema node has a rw property.
(ii) The schema node can be instantiated and the instantiated data node
     has a rw property.

I think it is difficult to have both at the same time. If the tree is
a representation of schema nodes, then (i) seems to make more
sense. That said, the explanation in 2.6 is somewhat vague since it
says 'data' and not 'nodes' (like everywhere else):

OLD:

       <flags> is one of:
         rw  for configuration data
         ro  for non-configuration data, output parameters to rpcs
             and actions, and notification parameters

NEW:

       <flags> is one of:
         rw  for configuration data nodes
         ro  for non-configuration data nodes, output parameters to rpcs
             and actions, and notification parameters

The document (as far as I searched for it) does not clearly say that
'node' means 'schema node'. In hindsight, it might have been useful to
explicitely import terminology from RFC 7950 and to use it carefully
(RFC 7950 has 'schema node' and 'data node' but here we largely talk
about 'nodes' - and my assumption is that this means 'schema nodes'.)

/js

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