How to access each leaf-list element individually?

Hello,

I want to access each leaf-list element individually for setting and getting as we do for list elements with a path like path/to/list{key}/. I tried to access each leaf-list element with path/to/leaf-list[index], but its saying invalid path. So I want to know whether there is any way to access each leaf-list element individually rather than getting the whole leaf-list as an array.

Also, is there a way to add a single leaf-list element to an existing leaf-list? And delete a single leaf-list element according to value, something like maapi_delete(path/to/leaf-list{element_value}) ?

Which ConfD release did you try?

Starting with ConfD 6.5, individual leaf-list elements can be created and deleted instead of setting/deleting the entire leaf-list as a single entity for prior releases.

I was trying with ConfD 6.4. But I have the ConfD 6.5 bin. I will try with that once. I went through the Confd 6.5 User Guide and examples(mostly), but I didn’t find any new information on leaf-list handling. So I would like to ask these questions for clarification(Considering Conf6.5 build).

(1) Will the path to the each leaf-list element be this: path/to/leaf-list[index]?

(2) How to add a single leaf-list element to an existing leaf-list? Will ‘maapi_set_elem(path/to/leaf-list, value)’ insert a leaf-list element to the existing leaf-list or will it update the existing leaf-list with the new leaf-list element(i.e., remove previous leaf-list and add a new leaf-list)?

(3) How does the deletion of single leaf-list element work in Confd 6.5? If I do a ‘maapi_delete(path/to/leaf-list[index])’, then will the confd automatically rearrange the remaining leaf-list or will the removed index be empty?

(4) Is there any way to delete a single leaf-list element according to value, something like ‘maapi_delete(path/to/leaf-list{element_value})’ which we do for a list?

Is there any example in the confd 6.5 examples set in which the individual leaf-list elements are set/delete?

Thanks,
Smruti Ranjan

The leaf-list related changes are described in the CHANGES file. A snippet of the description is as follows:

  - confd: The internal representation of leaf-lists has changed.
    Leaf-lists now behave similar to lists in terms of operations, i.e.,
    individual elements can now be created and deleted instead of
    setting/deleting the entire leaf-list as a single entity. Attributes
    can be set on individual leaf-list elements.

  ...

You will use the {key_value} keypath notation to specify what leaf-list element to be added or which leaf-list element to be deleted.

You will use maapi_create(sock, thandle, path-of-leaf-list{value}) to add an element with value to the end of the leaf-list.

You will use maapi_delete(sock, thandle, path-of-leaf-list{value}) to delete an element with value from the leaf-list.

Read the description of the CHANGES file in ConfD 6.5 for more information on the leaf-list related changes.

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Thanks for the detailed clarification. :slight_smile: . I forgot to look at the CHANGES file. I will go through it.