Accessing base identity from API

[ian.barrere]

Hi,

We have a hierarchical identity scheme like this:

  identity device-role {
    description "the role a device serves in the network";
  }
 identity aggregation {
    base device-role;
  }
  identity local-aggr-router {
    base aggregation;
  }

We would like to be able to determine the base, or any other level in the hierarchy of a device with the role "local-aggr-router", for example in a programmatic manner (maapi, ideally).

Does anybody know if it's possible to determine in code, for example, that a device tagged only with "local-aggr-router" identity is based on "aggregation" which is in turn based on "device-role"?

[u.avsec]

Hey

I haven't worked with a practical example of identity but looking at the YANG RFC it seems to me that this functions like typedef, if you have a derivate you don't really see that in maapi.

Perhaps try with maagic path and log dir() of the node to see what is possible on that object. Something like this:

print(root.path.to.node.dir())

And see if anything tasty pops up.