RE: Explicit and unique naming of configuration target

["Chen, Weijing" <wchen@tri.sbc.com>]

Another issues with current approach is that it only specifies the
operations at the root level of XML tree, which forces the same operation
(e.g. write) on to all the sub-elements of the tree regardless whether a
particular element is to be written or not.  For example:

<add-config>
 <ospf name="1">
   <area name="0">
      <interface name="135.104.57.3">
         <md5 name="3">
             ...
         </md5>
      </interface>
   </area>
 </ospf>
</add-config>


Does this request wants to add the new ospf (name=1) with new area (name=0)
at new interface (name=135.104.57.3) and new md5 key(name=3), or just wants
to add new md5 key at /opsf=1/area=0/interface=135.104.57.3?  




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wchen@tri.sbc.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Menten [mailto:lmenten@lucent.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 2:24 PM
> To: Margaret Wasserman
> Cc: netconf
> Subject: Re: Explicit and unique naming of configuration target
> 
> 
> 
> Margaret Wasserman wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Larry,
> >
> > ... are there important technical differences
> > between your proposed approach and the approach currently
> > used in the XMLCONF spec?  If so, could you explain what
> > they are?
> 
> Margaret,
> 
> The approach currently used in the XMLCONF spec does not
> provide a way to specify which element is the target element that is
> to be operated upon.
> .
> Consequently, a request to add, for example, an MD5 key to what
> you intend to be an existing interface instance within an OSPF area might
> end up causing the creation of an OSPF instance, the creation of
> an OSPF area, and the creation of an OSPF interface instance, and
> the creation of the desired MD5 key.  There is no way to express that
> you only wish to create an MD5 key and you will not know
> from the response that instead of a simple operation you have executed
> a complex one.  I believe that characteristics  like these are
> undesireable.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry
> 
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