Hi, I just became aware that the type leafref doesn't fail if the user enters something other than a leafref. This confused me, because NSO will throw an error if a user attempts to use a value other than one specified by a type enumeration. NSO will also force a user to enter in mandatory values if left blank. I would expect NSO to have more strict behavior for a leafref that does not exist, however NSO allows this with no issue. It is only when a commit is attempted that NSO throws an error.
Here is an example of configuration that is allowed to be entered into NSO for a leafref and does not have an issue until a commit is attempted.
admin@Mothership-6(config)# services ntp test device-name csr
admin@Mothership-6(config-ntp-test)# top
admin@Mothership-6(config)# services ntp test device-name notrealdevice?
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
admin@Mothership-6(config)# services ntp test device-name notrealdevice
admin@Mothership-6(config-ntp-test)# top
admin@Mothership-6(config)#
admin@Mothership-6(config)# commit
Aborted: illegal reference 'services ntp test device-name'
Below you can see that I get an error immediately if I give a value that is not one of the enumerated values. You can also see that I am able to enter a device that does not exist for the device-name with no issues. NSO then forces the user to enter in the mandatory value called `service` (which is where I aborted the transaction). So my question is why are the leafrefs not strict, and should they be.
admin@Mothership-6(config)# services apply-to-devices operation ?
Possible completions:
add
remove
replace
admin@Mothership-6(config)# services apply-to-devices operation not_valid_op
----------------------------------------------------------------^
syntax error: "not_valid_op" is an invalid value.
admin@Mothership-6(config)# services apply-to-devices device-name [ csr?
Possible completions:
]
csr
csr-copy
admin@Mothership-6(config)# services apply-to-devices device-name [ not_a_device?
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
admin@Mothership-6(config)# services apply-to-devices device-name [not_a_device ]
Value for 'service' (<string>):
Aborted: user aborted
