How to run commands on devices using RESTCONF

[Alejandro Madurga Ainoza]

Hi all,

I'm trying to run commands on devices (configurations) using the RESTCONF API, but I'm struggling to find how to execute multi line commands and then do a Dry-Run. I was able to run single line commands, but not commit them.

Any hint here?

Best regards,

Alex.

[vleijon]

What do you mean by 'multi-line commands'?

[Alejandro Madurga Ainoza]

Hi, well I mean something like the load merge on the cli, where we can put a bunch of lines to configure multiple paths of the configuration in one shot.

[vleijon]

The PATCH method in RESTCONF does something very similar to what load merge does in the CLI. The body of the message can contain several lines of XML/JSON. This might be what you want to use.

[joepak]

Have you tried utilizing 'load merge terminal' ?

[rogaglia]

Example of RESTCONF PATCH with multiple deletes in a single command.

I have not tried to do "dry-run" with PATCH media type, but I believe you need to add "?dryrun=native" to the URI:

'http://127.0.0.1:{{port_upper}}/restconf/data?dryrun=native' (Please let us know if that works)

Roque

curl -X PATCH \
  'http://127.0.0.1:{{port_upper}}/restconf/data' \
  -H 'Accept: application/yang-data+json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/yang-patch+json' \
  -H 'Postman-Token: 2a398902-c503-45ab-8dfb-98074171c71d' \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -H 'password: admin' \
  -H 'username: admin' \
  -d '      {
        "ietf-yang-patch:yang-patch" : {
          "patch-id" : "delete-before-start-1",
          "edit" : [
            {
              "edit-id" : "edit1",
              "operation" : "delete",
              "target" : "/mef-legato-services:mef-services"
            },
            {
              "edit-id" : "edit2",
              "operation" : "delete",
              "target" : "/mef-legato-interfaces:mef-interfaces"
            },
      {
              "edit-id" : "edit3",
              "operation" : "delete",
              "target" : "/ietf-network:networks"
            }
          ]
        }
      }'

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