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diff --git a/doc/developer/northbound/advanced-topics.rst b/doc/developer/northbound/advanced-topics.rst index edfc10b..eb75602 100644 --- a/doc/developer/northbound/advanced-topics.rst +++ b/doc/developer/northbound/advanced-topics.rst @@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ Auto-generated CLI commands In order to have less code to maintain, it should be possible to write a tool that auto-generates CLI commands based on the FRR YANG models. As a matter of fact, there are already a number of NETCONF-based CLIs that do -exactly that (e.g. `Clixon <https://github.com/clicon/clixon>`__, -ConfD’s CLI). +exactly that (e.g. `Clixon <https://github.com/clicon/clixon>`__). The problem however is that there isn’t an exact one-to-one mapping between the existing CLI commands and the corresponding YANG nodes from @@ -27,11 +26,6 @@ command for each YANG leaf, (leaf-)list and presence-container. The ripd’s ``timers basic`` command, for instance, would become three different commands, which would be undesirable. - This Tail-f’s® - `document <http://info.tail-f.com/hubfs/Whitepapers/Tail-f_ConfD-CLI__Cfg_Mode_App_Note_Rev%20C.pdf>`__ - shows how to customize ConfD auto-generated CLI commands using YANG - annotations. - The good news is that *libyang* allows users to create plugins to implement their own YANG extensions, which can be used to implement CLI annotations. If done properly, a CLI generator can save FRR developers @@ -76,8 +70,8 @@ Example of how this feature could be provided in the CLI: ``commit confirmed [minutes <1-60>]``. The ability to do confirmed commits should also be exposed in the northbound API so that the northbound plugins can also take advantage of it (in the case of the -Sysrepo and ConfD plugins, confirmed commits are implemented externally -in the *netopeer2-server* and *confd* daemons, respectively). +Sysrepo plugin, confirmed commit is implemented externally in the +*netopeer2-server* daemon). Proposed feature: enable/disable configuration commands/sections ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |