NETCONF support libraries for golang

This repository offers support libraries for writing NETCONF applications in Go.

• RFC6242 transport decoding and encoding filters
  • Support for both end-of-message and chunked-message encoding
• A gRPC based bi-directional transport stream, to use an OpenSSH server with a NETCONF agent
• NETCONF XML schema and state machines, used to manage XML stream decoding
  • Attach callback functions to the or schema nodes to build NETCONF server and client applications
• Idiomatic use of io interfaces throughout

Libraries under development:

• A document object model
• Encoding, decoding and validation of YANG data, including:
  • RFC6020 XML encoding and decoding of YANG data
  • RFC7951 JSON encoding and decoding of YANG data
  • Generation of NETCONF objects from YANG rpc statements

Applications you can build with these libraries include:

• NETCONF clients, servers
• NETCONF to network-element CLI proxies for non-NETCONF devices
• NETCONF/YANG command-line tools for network operator use

For building applications with an awareness of YANG data used with NETCONF services, see the goyang library.