Re: Difference between get and get-config

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Martin Bjorklund skrev:
>
> > > Is this device state information read-only per defintion?  Or is it
> > > possible edit it (via <edit-config/>) if the agent supports the writable
> > > running capability?
> >
> > <edit-config> modifies the configuration data only, not the state
> > data.  So from a <edit-config> perspective, the state data is
> > read-only.
>
> Is the state data said to be part of the data model?
>
> I'm trying to figure out what happen if the user pipes the data
> unmodifed from <get/> to <edit-config(replace)> and stores it in
> a configuration store.  As I see it there are three possible
> outcomes;
>
>  1. the state data is filtered out.

This is what <get-config> and <copy-config> does

>  2. the config and non-config data is stored in the store.
>  3. yields an error.

Yes -- an access-failed error because you are attempting
to write to read-only data

> Also, should it be possible to <validate/> a document with state data?
>
>
> ~j

Andy

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