Get_Next only the configured list

[cohult]

HI,

I believe there is a misunderstanding of the purpose of get_next() here. See ConfD UG chapter 6.4 and 6.6. See also confd_lib_dp(3) man page “confd_register_data_cb” for details on the various callbacks you can implement with your data provider callpoint.

See also examples.confd/intro/5-c_stats example and this previous posting:

How to add the support of the get_next_object() callback to the 5-c_stats example?

EDIT 2021 - an updated data provider performance demo is available here: As this post explains for the get_object() callback: In order to improve the performance of the data provider API callbacks, for both external configuration as well as operational data, when dealing with lists with many leaf elements in them, it is recommended to provide the implementation of the get_object() API. This will reduce the number of round trip calls from the ConfD daemon process for retrieving the leaf ele…