> On 09 May 2016, at 10:59, Robert Varga <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 05/05/2016 04:44 PM, Balazs Lengyel wrote:
>> 5) IMHO allowing such dynamic introduction of new YANG modules into a
>> network element, with flexible mountpoints, flexible set of modules at
>> each mountpoint, a flexible set of deviations and features for each
>> mounted module makes discovery actual available schema tree difficult. I
>> think we are providing to much flexibility, over-complicating the issue.
>> Some more static mounting solution that can be read from YANG modules
>> instead of run-time data would be easier.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is at least one use case, where the organization of
> 'the world' is a run-time rather than modeling-time property, hence the
> discovery process needs to be driven by data available in run-time.

Either way, schema mount isn't really about modeling-time but rather about 
session-time. I would prefer that the server publish the complete schema 
upfront, as a part of the "contract" with the client.

> 
> That use case is important for things like OpenDaylight, but may not be
> important when talking directly to "simple" network elements, e.g. those
> which can be statically modeled.

One option is to have separate mechanisms for the simple and complex cases.

Lada

> 
> Bye,
> Robert
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