* RFC 8528 yang schema mount-points:
* Made expand_dbvar and cli_dbxml mountpoint-aware (RFC 8528)
* autocli supportgenerate
* Made api_path2xml and xml2api_path mount-point-aware
* Temporar fix in clixon_custom.h: XPATH_CANONICAL_SKIP_CHECK
* `xml2xpath()`: Added `apostrophe` as 4th parameter, default 0
* removed extra assert.h includes
* Added flag names: `CLIXON_DBG_*`
* Added maskable flags that can be combined when debugging:
* `DEFAULT` = 1: Basic debug message, espcially initialization
* `MSG` = 2: Input and output packets, read datastore
* `DETAIL` = 4: Details: message dump in hex, xpath parse trees, etc
* `EXTRA` = 8: Extra detailed logs
* Test: some errors in yang-lib where content-id was in wrong place
* Closer adherence to RFC 7950. Some of this is changed behavior, some is new feature.
* Essentially instead of looking at the referring leaf, context is referred(target) node
* Validation uses referred node
* Validation changed to use type of referred node, instead of just "string"
* Auto-cli
* Changed to use type of referred node for typecheck
* Completion uses referred node
* Required instance / less strict validation
* New: Leafrefs must refer to existing data leaf ONLY IF YANG `required-instance` is true
* Previous: All leafrefs must refer to existing data leaf node
* Fixed: [Autocli does not offer completions for leafref to identityref #254](https://github.com/clicon/clixon/issues/254)
* Example: `GET restconf/data/x:a=`
* Previous meaning (wrong): Return all `a` elements.
* New meaning (correct): Return the `a` instance with empty key string: "".
* [RESTCONF GET request of single-key list with empty string returns all elements #213](https://github.com/clicon/clixon/issues/213)
* [RESTCONF GETof lists with empty string keys does not work #214](https://github.com/clicon/clixon/issues/214)
* Hello message semantics has been made stricter according to RFC 6241 Sec 8.1, for example:
* A client MUST send a <hello> element.
* Each peer MUST send at least the base NETCONF capability, "urn:ietf:params:netconf:base:1.1" (or 1.0 for RFC 4741)
* The netconf client will terminate (close the socket) if the client does not comply
* You can set `CLICON_NETCONF_HELLO_OPTIONAL` to true to use the old behavior of essentially ignoring hellos.
* New clixon-config@2020-03-08.yang revision
* Added: `CLICON_NETCONF_HELLO_OPTIONAL`
* The base capability has been changed to "urn:ietf:params:netconf:base:1.1" following RFC6241.
* `count`, `name`, `contains`, `not`, as defined in [xpath 1.0](https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-10)
* `deref`, `derived-from` and `derived-from-or-self` from RFC7950 Section 10.
* in particular in augment/when statements
* Improved error handling
* Verification of XPath functions is done at startup when yang modules are loaded, not when XPaths are evaluated.
* Separation of "not found" and "not implemented" XPath functions
* Both give a fatal error (backend does not start).
w-level general upgrades and as a complement to module-specific upgrade.
* Called on startup after initial XML parsing, but before module-specific upgrades
* Enabled by definign the `.ca_datastore_upgrade`
* [General-purpose upgrade documentation](https://clixon-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backend.html#ge
neral-purpose)
* JSON parse error messages change from ` on line x: syntax error,..` to `json_parse: line x: syntax err
or`
* Unknown-element error message is more descriptive, eg from `namespace is: urn:example:clixon` to: `Fai
led to find YANG spec of XML node: x with parent: xp in namespace urn:example:clixon`.
* C-API parse and validation API more capable
* `xml_spec_populate` family of functions extended with three-value return values
* -1: error, 0: parse OK, 1: parse and YANG binding OK.
* `xml_parse` and `json_parse` API changes
* Three value returns: -1: error, 0: parse OK, 1: parse and YANG binding OK.
* Extended `xml_parse_file2` and `xml_parse_string2` extended API functions with all options available.
* New concept called `yang_bind` that defines how XML symbols are bound to YANG after parsing
* Existing API same except `xml_parse_file` `endtag` argument moved to `xml_parse_file2`
* C-API: Added instrumentation: `xml_size` and `xml_stats_get`.
* Fixed: Enabling modstate (CLICON_XMLDB_MODSTATE), changing a revision on a yang, and restarting made the backend daemon exit at start (thanks Matt)
* Also: ensure to load `ietf-yang-library.yang ` if CLICON_XMLDB_MODSTATE is set
Major New features
* New and updated search functions using xpath, api-path and instance-id
* New search functions using api-path and instance_id:
* C search functions: `clixon_find_instance_id()` and `clixon_find_api_path()`
* Binary search optimization in lists for indexed leafs in all three formats.
* This improves search performance to O(logN) which is drastical improvements for large lists.
* You can also register explicit indexes for making binary search (not only list keys)
* For more info, see docs at [paths](https://clixon-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/paths.html) and
[search](https://clixon-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/xml.html#searching-in-xml)
API changes on existing features (you may need to change your code)
* On failed validation of leafrefs, error message changed from: `No such leaf` to `No leaf <name> matching path <path>`.
* CLI Error message (clicon_rpc_generate_error()) changed when backend returns netconf error to be more descriptive:
* Original: `Config error: Validate failed. Edit and try again or discard changes: Invalid argument`
* New (example): `Netconf error: application operation-failed Identityref validation failed, undefined not derived from acl-base . Validate failed. Edit and try again or discard changes"
Minor changes
* Test framework
* Added `-- -S <file>` command-line to main example to be able to return any state to main example.
* Added `test/cicd` test scripts for running on a set of other hosts
* C-code restructuring
* clixon_yang.c partitioned and moved code into clixon_yang_parse_lib.c and clixon_yang_module.c and move back some code from clixon_yang_type.c.
* partly to reduce size, but most important to limit code that accesses internal yang structures, only clixon_yang.c does this now.