{"id":1149,"date":"2017-10-30T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2017\/10\/30\/what-is-restconf\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T19:57:42","slug":"what-is-restconf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Networking\/Protocols\/what-is-restconf.html","title":{"rendered":"What is RESTCONF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662966d6ea8c4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662966d6ea8c4\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Networking\/Protocols\/what-is-restconf.html\/#Introduction\" title=\"Introduction\">Introduction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Networking\/Protocols\/what-is-restconf.html\/#Protocol_Stack\" title=\"Protocol Stack\">Protocol Stack<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Networking\/Protocols\/what-is-restconf.html\/#OperationalConfiguration\" title=\"Operational\/Configuration\">Operational\/Configuration<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Networking\/Protocols\/what-is-restconf.html\/#Operations\" title=\"Operations\">Operations<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Networking\/Protocols\/what-is-restconf.html\/#Communication\" title=\"Communication\">Communication<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Networking\/Protocols\/what-is-restconf.html\/#Further_Reading\" title=\"Further Reading\">Further Reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span>Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"c12\">Following on from our <a href=\"\/Networking\/Protocols\/an-introduction-to-netconf-yang.html\">previous article<\/a> around NETCONF and YANG, we will look at the RESTCONF protocol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c12\">As per RFC <span class=\"c15 c5 c8\">8040 (RESTCONF Protocol), the IETF describes RESTCONF as,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">\u201can HTTP-based protocol that provides a programmatic interface for accessing data defined in YANG, using the datastore concepts defined in the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF).\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h.pj1orkgeszem\" class=\"c24\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Protocol_Stack\"><\/span><span class=\"c26 c5\">Protocol Stack<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"c12\"><span class=\"c4 c5\">First lets look at the protocol stack. Compared to NETCONF, the RESTCONF protocol stack it is far simpler, in many ways. Lets step through the layers,<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"c12\"><span class=\"c4 c5\"><strong>Content<\/strong> &#8211; Unlike NETCONF where we much use XML. RESTCONF allows for either JSON or XML to be used.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c12\"><span class=\"c4 c5\"><strong>Operations<\/strong> &#8211; Each of the operations are aligned to the various HTTP methods, providing the required suite of CRUD based operations (Create, Replace, Update and Delete).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c12\"><span class=\"c4 c5\"><strong>Transport<\/strong> &#8211; The transport protocol is HTTP, allowing us to use HTTPS. Providing the security benefits that TLS has to offer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Figure 1<\/strong> &#8211; RESTCONF Protocol Stack.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"c12\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"OperationalConfiguration\"><\/span>Operational\/Configuration<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>RESTCONF provides the ability to query and perform operations upon either the<strong> configuration<\/strong> or <strong>operational<\/strong> state. This is achieved by RESTCONF splitting the datastore into config and operational. Both of which are accessed via the URI`s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"codeinline\">\/restconf\/config<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"codeinline\">\/restconf\/operational<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"c12\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Operations\"><\/span><span class=\"c4 c5\">Operations<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"c12\"><span class=\"c4 c5\">Let&#8217;s look at the RESTCONF operations to that of NETCONF,<\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-striped table-condensed\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"c9\">\n<th>RESTCONF<\/th>\n<th>NETCONF Operation<\/th>\n<th>Media Type<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"c9\">\n<td>GET<\/td>\n<td>&lt;get&gt;, &lt;get-config&gt;<\/td>\n<td>application\/yang.data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"c9\">\n<td>GET<\/td>\n<td>&lt;create-subscription&gt;<\/td>\n<td>text\/event-stream<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"c9\">\n<td>POST<\/td>\n<td>any &lt;rpc&gt; operation<\/td>\n<td>application\/yang.operation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"c9\">\n<td>PUT<\/td>\n<td>replace<\/td>\n<td>application\/yang.data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"c9\">\n<td>PATCH<\/td>\n<td>any edit operation<\/td>\n<td>application\/yang.patch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"c9\">\n<td>PATCH<\/td>\n<td>merge<\/td>\n<td>application\/yang.data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"c9\">\n<td>DELETE<\/td>\n<td>delete<\/td>\n<td>application\/yang.data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 id=\"h.mal02i8omv3f\" class=\"c25\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Communication\"><\/span><span class=\"c15 c5 c16\">Communication<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"c12\">The first thing to mention is that RESTCON<span class=\"c13 c5\">F listens on port 8080 for HTTP requests.\u00a0 Furthermore the HTTP headers <span class=\"codeinline\">Content-Type<\/span> and <span class=\"codeinline\">Accept<\/span> are used (by the client) to instruct the server of the\u00a0 data type (i.e XML or JSON).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c11\"><span class=\"c1\">For further details on how the URI is constructed check out<strong> Cisco Live &#8211; <\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"c4 c1\">DEVNET-1721 &#8211; Introduction to NETCONF, RESTCONF and YANG (2017 Las Vegas).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h.aylpp76bp4yo\" class=\"c25\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Further_Reading\"><\/span><span class=\"c15 c1 c16\">Further Reading<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"c12\"><span class=\"c1 c17\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sdntutorials.com\/what-is-restconf\/\" class=\"broken_link\">http:\/\/sdntutorials.com\/what-is-restconf\/<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/www.ietf_.org_proceedings_88_slides_slides-88-netconf-3.pdf\">https:\/\/www.ietf.org\/proceedings\/88\/slides\/slides-88-netconf-3.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Following on from our previous article around NETCONF and YANG, we will look at the RESTCONF protocol. As per RFC 8040 (RESTCONF Protocol), the IETF describes RESTCONF as, \u201can HTTP-based protocol that provides a programmatic interface for accessing data defined in YANG, using the datastore concepts defined in the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF).\u201d Protocol &#8230; <a title=\"What is RESTCONF?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Networking\/Protocols\/what-is-restconf.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is RESTCONF?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1266],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is RESTCONF? - Fir3net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Introduction Following on from our previous article around NETCONF and YANG, we will look at the RESTCONF protocol. 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