Hm, but maybe I misunderstood your question about “get_object() is not implemented for a container”. From ConfD’s point of view, you implement get_object() - or not - for a callpoint. I.e. if you have implemented get_object() for a given callpoint, and used the flag, and the callpoint covers leafs that are candidates for get_object()-for-container invocation as described in the man page, get_object() may be invoked for the container, even if the actual callback code can’t handle that. ConfD obviously has no way of knowing what your code can do - the point of the flag is to allow you to tell ConfD about it.