clixon/ROADMAP.md

Clixon roadmap

High prio

• Special handling of the initial startup transaction to avoid exit at startup
  • Possibly - draft-wu-netconf-restconf-factory-restore-03
• Handle revisions to data model.
  • Possibly draft-wang-netmod-module-revision-management-01
• (DONE) NACM (RFC 8341)
  • NACM support for create, read, update, delete operations
  • ACM support for specifying a module name other than '*'
• (DONE)XML Namespace handling (DONE)

Medium prio:

• Support a plugin callback that is invoked when copy-config is called.
• Preserve CLI command history across sessions. The up/down arrows
• (DONE)Support for XML regex's.
  • Currently Posix extended regular expressions
• (DONE) Input validation on custom RPCs/
  • Sanity checks

Low prio:

• Provide a client library to access netconf APIs provided by system services.
  • Netconf backend (Clixon acts as netconf controller)
• Support for restconf call-home (RFC 8071)

Not prioritized:

• Support for restconf PATCH method
• NETCONF
  • Support for additional Netconf edit-config modes
  • Netconf framing
  • Child ordering
• Restconf
  • Query parameters
• Streams (netconf and restconf)
  • Extend native stream mode with external persistent timeseries database, eg influxdb.
• Jenkins CI/CD and webhooks
• YANG
  • RFC 6022 NETCONF monitoring
  • Deviation, min/max-elements, action, unique
• Containers
  • Docker improvements
  • Kubernetes Helm chart definition
• gRPC