Ladislav Lhotka <lho...@nic.cz> wrote: > On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 07:36 +0100, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: > > I agree that > > > > leaf datastore { > > type ds:datastore-ref; > > description "The identity of the datastore for which > > the instance data is documented for config=true data nodes. > > The leaf MAY be absent in which case the running dtastore or > > if thats not writable, the candidate datastore is implied. > > > > For config=false data nodes always the operational > > data store is implied."; > > } > > > > is pretty confusing. It should be something like this: > > > > leaf datastore { > > type ds:datastore-ref; > > description "The identity of the datastore holding > > the instance data. If the instance data is not associated > > Or rather the datastore that the instance data was extracted from.
I prefer "associated with". There are other uses cases than just holding data "extracted from", e.g., data that is supposed to "be inserted into" a datastore. "associated with" is less resrictive. > After that, > the data exists on its own and the originating datastore may later be holding > something else. > > > with a datastore, then this leaf MUST be absent."; > > RFC 2119 language would make sense if there is anything that could break if > that > MUST isn't observed. But we even didn't know what the data is going to be used > for. > > I would treat the "datastore" item as a purely optional information I agree. /martin > that, if > present, was provided for some reason. If it is false, what can we do? > > > } > > > > I am against merging data from different datastores together, which > > the last sentence of the original text seems to imply. > > Both config true and config false data may come from <operational>, so it > doesn't necessarily mean any mixing of datastores. But then again, I think > that > the datastore information isn't in most cases that interesting. > > Lada > > > > > /js > > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:51:26AM +0700, Ladislav Lhotka wrote: > > > Joe Clarke <jcla...@cisco.com> writes: > > > > === > > > > > > > > Section 6 > > > > > > > > With your datastore leaf, if I pull this off of a running YANG server, > > > > serialize it and share it with my customer, why wouldn't I have the > > > > actual datastore from which I retrieved it? What I'm saying is that > > > > this element may be missing, but if it is, I don't think you can assume > > > > the source datastore for config=true nodes. > > > > > > > > > > The description of the "datastore" leaf doesn't make much sense to > > > me. It says that for configuration data the default is "running" or > > > "candidate" if "running" isn't writable. Why should it matter whether > > > "running" is writable? It looks like it is assumed that the config data > > > will > > > eventually be fed into the indicated datastore, but I don't see any > > > reason for such an assumption. > > > > > > I can see that "datastore" can be occasionally useful as auxiliary > > > metadata but, in my view, this document addresses also instance data > > > that is not necessarily bound to any datastore. > > > > > > Lada > > > > > > -- > > > Ladislav Lhotka > > > Head, CZ.NIC Labs > > > PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > netmod mailing list > > > netmod@ietf.org > > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > -- > Ladislav Lhotka > Head, CZ.NIC Labs > PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67 > > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > netmod@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod