On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Juergen Schoenwaelder <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:35:48AM +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> > Martin Bjorklund <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > auto-deletion in choice/when should be described as a property of the
> > > data model for the datastore.  Parts of the text from Section 8.2.2
> > > should be made more generic and moved, probably to a new section
> > > 8.1.1.   I will have a look at this.
>
> [...]
>
> > IMO YANG spec should tell what's valid and what isn't, and stop there.
>
> As technical contributor, I tend to agree. The purpose of validation
> should be to return a boolean - datastore is valid or invalid. I find
> the idea scary that validation causes changes of a datastore in an
> attempt to make an invalid the datastore valid. And it is even more
> scary if the attempt to make the datastore valid requires to remember
> what the last edit was that triggered the validation procedure in
> order to decide how to try to make the datastore valid (if we consider
> different protocols with different primitives to trigger edits on a
> datastore).
>
>

There is a very strong use-case in "augment when" and also
just "when <correct-subclass>".

Does that mean that implementing "when" statement should not
be 10X harder than anything else in YANG?  Who knows.

I suspect there does not exist anything close to a perfect
implemention of YANG when evaluation.  If customers really wanted
to use the corner-case examples you guys come up with, then
there would be a problem.  So far it is mostly the 2 use cases I described.

The current auto-deletion is actually consistent behavior
because it applies to nodes in the PDU and nodes already
in the datastore.  Auto-deletion avoids forcing the client to
make multiple edits, possibly leaving the datastore in
a vulnerable state in between edits.





> /js
>

Andy


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