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From: "Mr. Uh Clem" <uhclem@DutchElmSt.invalid>
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Subject: GetBulkRequest partial results?
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:49:49 -0500
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http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc3416#page-14

I've not used GetBulk before and am wondering about the case of partial 
results.  In reading the fine RFC, it seems that if the agent runs out of 
space for results, it simply stops when the response for the next object 
will not fit.  This is simply object by object, not per iteration of the 
repeated objects(conceptual row)?  For example, if I'm polling five objects 
(A-E) with a single non-repeater (N) with repeater count of 10 and the agent 
runs out of space in the middle of the third repetition, I might expect

to get            instead of
NA1B1C1D1E1       NA1B1C1D1E1
  A2B2C2D2E2        A2B2C2D2E2
  A3B3C3

, the later cleanly breaking at a repetition (row).

What's the way to continue to traverse the table?  Seems like doing another 
GetBulk using the instances from the last complete repetition should work. 
possibility.  It feels like it should be possible to continue by doing 
something like a GetBulk with non-repeating D2E2 and repeating A3B3C3D?E?, 
but there's really no way to come up with the instances for D and E, is 
there?  Am I missing something?

-- 
Clem
"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."
              - Fudd's first law of opposition