RESTCONF Protocol
draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-10
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Network Working Group A. Bierman
Internet-Draft YumaWorks
Intended status: Standards Track M. Bjorklund
Expires: September 17, 2016 Tail-f Systems
K. Watsen
Juniper Networks
March 16, 2016
RESTCONF Protocol
draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-10
Abstract
This document describes an HTTP-based protocol that provides a
programmatic interface for accessing data defined in YANG, using the
datastores defined in NETCONF.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.1. NETCONF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.1.2. HTTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.1.3. YANG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1.4. Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1.5. URI Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1.6. Tree Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2. Subset of NETCONF Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3. Data Model Driven API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4. Coexistence with NETCONF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.5. RESTCONF Extensibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2. Transport Protocol Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1. Integrity and Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2. HTTPS with X.509v3 Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.3. Certificate Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4. Authenticated Server Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5. Authenticated Client Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3. Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.1. Root Resource Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2. RESTCONF Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3. API Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3.1. {+restconf}/data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.3.2. {+restconf}/operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.3.3. {+restconf}/yang-library-version . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.4. Datastore Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.4.1. Edit Collision Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.5. Data Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.5.1. Encoding Data Resource Identifiers in the Request URI 22
3.5.2. Defaults Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.6. Operation Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.6.1. Encoding Operation Resource Input Parameters . . . . 26
3.6.2. Encoding Operation Resource Output Parameters . . . . 29
3.6.3. Encoding Operation Resource Errors . . . . . . . . . 31
3.7. Schema Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.8. Event Stream Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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