Re: [netmod] WHEN statement within mandatory objects doesn't ensure presence of the mandatory object

[Michael Rehder <[e-mail]>]

I provided an example.
Requiring something to be present when a condition is to me a useful capability.
How else would you enforce in an optimal way that something is present under only certain conditions (define it on the controlled section, not use a zillion if-feature)?

Thanks
Mike

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Subject: Re: [netmod] WHEN statement within mandatory objects doesn't ensure presence of the mandatory object


On 12/10/2018 17:08, Michael Rehder wrote:
The mandatory statement in that case is ignored (I’ve pointed out the RNG and Schematron lack of enforcement).
OK, I'm not familiar with RNG and Schematron.


WHEN trumps the mandatory status (via explicit mandatory or implicit mandatory via min-elements 1)
So I think that you are asking for mandatory to trump a when condition.  Can you provide a concrete example where this is required, or even useful?

A solution here, that doesn't require any changes in the YANG language, would be to just move the when condition, down to each of the child nodes that are not marked as mandatory.

But, sorry, at the moment I'm still at a loss to see how where this would actually be useful.

Thanks,
Rob



Thanks
Mike

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Subject: Re: [netmod] WHEN statement within mandatory objects doesn't ensure presence of the mandatory object


Hi Mike,

On 11/10/2018 19:05, Andy Bierman wrote:


On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Michael Rehder <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
I think the wording is relevant - something can be conditional but still required.
Yes, but I think that this is already expressed by a node that has both a when condition and mandatory statement.




container a {

  container x {

    when "some condition";

    leaf foo {

      mandatory true;

    }

    leaf bar {

      ...

    }

  }

  container y {

    leaf baz {

      mandatory true;

    }

    leaf tee {

      ...

    }

  }

}



a/x/foo is conditional (due to when) but required (if the when condition is met).

a/x/bar is conditional (due to when) but optional (if the when condition is met).

a/y/baz is unconditional but required.

a/y/tee is unconditional but optional.




It should be clarified that elements become implicitly “mandatory false” when a “when” statement is used.
But they don't.




I would like to see an enhancement to YANG to control this behavior, to allow the mandatory status to be enforced.
That is, support also “conditionally required” instead of only the current “conditionally optional”.
I'm trying to understand what this would even mean.

Taking your original example, but with "enforce-mandatory-status":

         leaf AssignmentMechanism {

            type enumeration {

              enum "DHCP";

              enum "Static";

            }

            mandatory true;

            description "The address assignment mechanism.";

          }

          list IPAddresses {

            when "../AssignmentMechanism = 'Static'" {

              enforce-mandatory-status;

            }  key Address;

            min-elements 1;



            leaf Address {

              type capit:IPv4Address;

              description "An ipv4 address.";

            }

           }

So this means that list IPaddresses must have at least one element regardless of whether the when condition holds.  I.e. no matter whether the assignment is DHCP or Static there must always be at least one 1 address configured.  But I don't understand what this actually means - it seems like a contradiction.  What am I missing?  Please can you give a concrete example (in YANG) of what behaviour you are looking for.

Thanks,
Rob

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