Datastore write that automatically creates children broken

A change in the last 24-48 hrs broke a datastore write that asks for intermediate children to be created automatically. This has broken SFC and probably other projects.

The following code has always worked (notice the “true”)

writeTx.merge(LogicalDatastoreType.CONFIGURATION,
sftentryIID, sftServiceFunctionName, true);

And now it barfs with the following.

Caused by: org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.schema.tree.ModifiedNodeDoesNotExistException: Node /(urn:cisco:params:xml:ns:yang:sfc-sft?revision=2014-07-01)service-function-types does not exist. Cannot apply modification to its children.
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.impl.schema.tree.NormalizedNodeContainerModificationStrategy.checkSubtreeModificationApplicable(NormalizedNodeContainerModificationStrategy.java:164)[90:org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang-data-impl:0.7.0.SNAPSHOT]
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.impl.schema.tree.SchemaAwareApplyOperation.checkApplicable(SchemaAwareApplyOperation.java:135)[90:org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang-data-impl:0.7.0.SNAPSHOT]
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.impl.schema.tree.NormalizedNodeContainerModificationStrategy.checkChildPreconditions(NormalizedNodeContainerModificationStrategy.java:178)[90:org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang-data-impl:0.7.0.SNAPSHOT]
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.impl.schema.tree.NormalizedNodeContainerModificationStrategy.checkSubtreeModificationApplicable(NormalizedNodeContainerModificationStrategy.java:168)[90:org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang-data-impl:0.7.0.SNAPSHOT]
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.impl.schema.tree.SchemaAwareApplyOperation.checkApplicable(SchemaAwareApplyOperation.java:135)[90:org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang-data-impl:0.7.0.SNAPSHOT]
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.impl.schema.tree.RootModificationApplyOperation.checkApplicable(RootModificationApplyOperation.java:72)[90:org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang-data-impl:0.7.0.SNAPSHOT]