Re: Difference between get and get-config

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Martin Bjorklund skrev:
>
> > Each of these can be viewed as a separate XML document if you wish.
>
> In other words, a configuration datastore can store several documents?

A NETCONF configuration database is not an XML instance document.
Only the NETCONF PDUs on the wire are XML instance documents.

The data root is the <config> element or the <filter> element,
which does not actually exist as part of the agent data model(s).
That is why I called it a conceptual root.

It is quite possible that different child nodes of <config> or <filter>
could be defined in different XSDs.  (The <netconf> node will be
defined in NETCONF Notifications, and proprietary nodes will be
defined elsewhere.)

When the agent does a 'copy-config', a top-level element has to
be created to hold the arbitrary number of data nodes (I call
this element <config> in my code.)  Otherwise the file written
will not be well-formed XML.  Otherwise you could not take
the output of a <get-config> or <copy-config> and use it directly
as the input to an <edit-config> operation.

Network configuration is not a document editing problem.
Use WEBDAV for that problem, not NETCONF.

> ~j

Andy


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