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diff --git a/doc/developer/northbound/retrofitting-configuration-commands.rst b/doc/developer/northbound/retrofitting-configuration-commands.rst index c13332bf1f..b407246049 100644 --- a/doc/developer/northbound/retrofitting-configuration-commands.rst +++ b/doc/developer/northbound/retrofitting-configuration-commands.rst @@ -1,24 +1,5 @@ -Table of Contents ------------------ - -- `Introduction <#introduction>`__ -- `Retrofitting process <#retrofitting-process>`__ - - - `Step 1: writing a YANG module <#step1>`__ - - `Step 2: generate skeleton northbound callbacks <#step2>`__ - - `Step 3: update the frr_yang_module_info array of all relevant - daemons <#step3>`__ - - `Step 4: implement the northbound configuration - callbacks <#step4>`__ - - `Step 5: rewrite the CLI commands as dumb wrappers around the - northbound callbacks <#step5>`__ - - `Step 6: implement the ``cli_show`` callbacks <#step6>`__ - - `Step 7: consolidation <#step7>`__ - -- `Final Considerations <#final-considerations>`__ - -Introduction ------------- +Retrofitting Configuration Commands +----------------------------------- This page explains how to convert existing CLI configuration commands to the new northbound model. This documentation is meant to be the primary @@ -88,7 +69,7 @@ possible. As we’ll see later, not all constraints can be expressed using the YANG language and sometimes we’ll need to resort to code-level validation in the northbound callbacks. - Tip: the [[YANG tools]] page details several tools and commands that + Tip: the :doc:`yang-tools` page details several tools and commands that might be useful when writing a YANG module, like validating YANG files, indenting YANG files, validating instance data, etc. @@ -1875,7 +1856,7 @@ Final Considerations -------------------- Testing -^^^^^^^ +~~~~~~~ Converting CLI commands to the new northbound model can be a complicated task for beginners, but the more commands one converts, the easier it @@ -1888,7 +1869,7 @@ to use valgrind and static code analyzers to catch other types of problems like memory leaks. Amount of work -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The output below gives a rough estimate of the total number of configuration commands that need to be converted per daemon: |