On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 04:15:28PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote: > Hi, > > The text about invoking actions in RFC 7950, sec. 7.15 is not clear > about whether the ancestor data nodes have to exist. > > sec 7.15.2, para 2: > > The <action> element contains a hierarchy of nodes that identifies > the node in the datastore. > > > The RFC does not say anything about if the data node is required to > exist or not. There is no distinction between NP-container, P-container, > or list which are ancestors of the action node. It does not specify > which datastore, and that is not supplied in the <action> RPC. > The text specifies what must be in the <rpc> request, not in any datastore > or state data. > > It seems like the intent is that no instance test is specified at all and > the corresponding ancestor nodes to the action node do not have to > exist for the action to be invoked. (The action may succeed or fail). > The issue is whether there is an existence-test before invoking the action.
We discussed actions during the work on NMDA. RFC 8342 has this text in section 6, in particular 6.1 says: Actions are always invoked in the context of the operational state datastore. The node for which the action is invoked MUST exist in the operational state datastore. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
