Re: [netmod] YANG action not allowed at root?

"Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <rwilton@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: netmod <netmod-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Martin Björklund
> > Sent: 05 May 2020 11:30
> > To: per@hedeland.org
> > Cc: netmod@ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: [netmod] YANG action not allowed at root?
> > 
> > Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> wrote:
> > > On 2020-05-05 11:55, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 11:45:41AM +0200, Per Hedeland wrote:
> > > >> On 2020-05-05 11:00, Martin Björklund wrote:
> > > >>> Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> If we were to redo YANG, I would prefer to have a single statement
> > > >>> "operation", either on the top-level, or tied to a node.
> > > >>
> > > >> So, no rpc statement, and thereby no possibility to extend NETCONF
> > > >> with new RPCs? (Or to be precise, YANG would extend NETCONF with
> > > >> exactly one RPC, called "operation"?)
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > OLD
> > > >
> > > >   rpc foo {}
> > > >   list something { action bar {} }
> > > >
> > > > NEW
> > > >
> > > >   operation foo {}
> > > >   list something { operation bar {} }
> > >
> > > Yes, that much is obvious, my question was really about the NETCONF
> > > encoding.
> > >
> > > > Syntactic sugar if you will.
> > >
> > > So you're saying that the NETCONF encoding of "operation foo" at the
> > > top level would be an RPC called "foo"
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > while the NETCONF encoding of
> > > "operation foo" elsewhere would be an RPC called "action"?
> > 
> > Yes; or called something else.
> [RW] 
> 
> What is your reasoning for not wanting to unify the encoding?

I don't want to change the protocol.

> E.g. always treat the encoding like action, but with the <action> node removed.

This would violate RFC 6241 which says:

   The name of the RPC is an element directly inside the
   <rpc> element, and any parameters are encoded inside this element.

/martin

> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> [As an individual contributor]
> 
> > 
> > 
> > /martin
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