Re: [netmod] validating instance data against YANG schema including 'must' statements

On Thu, 2019-12-12 at 16:42 +0000, Sterne, Jason (Nokia - CA/Ottawa) wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> A few years ago there were a few discussions on the list about tools to
> validate instance data (e.g. the data returned by a <get-config>) against a
> YANG model.
>  
> yang2dsdl is one option but I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually check the data
> against 'must' statements.
>  
> Are there some tools that check against 'must' (and 'when') statements?  Do
> those tools also work with YANG 1.1 modules?

Yangson does a complete validation, and supports YANG 1.1, but only JSON
representation of instance data. The GitHub link is below, a PyPI package is
also available:

https://pypi.org/project/yangson/

Lada

>  
> Thx,
> Jason
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> Re: [netmod] Toolchain upgraded to yangdump-pro 16.10-5 => 16.10-5..1
> Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> Tue, 07 March 2017 12:42 UTCShow header
> 
> Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net>; writes:
>  
> > Hi Benoit,
> > 
> > You seem to know the ins and outs of many tools these days, maybe you
> > can point me in the right direction...which tool is able to validate
> > instance documents against YANG 1.1 modules?
>  
> Yangson can validate JSON documents:
>  
> https://github.com/CZ-NIC/yangson
>  
> > 
> > I've always used `yang2dsdl`, but currently it outputs "DSDL plugin
> > supports only YANG version 1".
>  
> I considered updating the DSDL plugin to 1.1 but it turned up to be
> immensely difficult - it would basically require a complete rewrite. And
> even then, the Schematron implementation that is included in pyang
> distribution won't support the new XPath functions.
>  
> Lada
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> Re: [netmod] DSDL plugin in pyang
> Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> Tue, 29 November 2016 13:39 UTCShow header
> 
> Hi William,
>  
> apart from yang2dsdl, I have personal experience with these two instance
> validation tools:
>  
> * yanglint - written in C, supports both XML and JSON instance encoding
>  
>   https://github.com/CESNET/libyang
>  
> * yangson - written in Python, supports only JSON
>  
>   https://github.com/CZ-NIC/yangson
>   installation: pip install yangson
>   manual page: http://yangson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cmdline.html
>  
> Lada
>  
> William Lupton <wlupton@broadband-forum.org>; writes:
>  
> > Are you able to provide a list (either privately or via the NETMOD list) of
> other instance data validators that are available and cover YANG 1.1 features?
> Tx, W.
> > 
> >> On 25 Nov 2016, at 14:33, Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz>; wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> for users of $subj: I modified the plugin so that it now immediately
> refuses to process modules of yang-version greater than 1. Supporting some of
> the YANG 1.1 features (new XPath functions, leafref handling) would require
> massive changes and I cannot do them now - I am not even sure it is worth the
> effort given that other instance data validators are available.
> >> 
> >> Lada
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