Ubus network.interface does not update if IP is manually set

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Hello,
For Openwrt system that has not been assigned dynamic IP (no DHCP server available), this is the result of ubus call:

ubus -v call network.interface.lan status
{
	"up": false,
	"pending": true,
	"available": true,
	"autostart": true,
	"dynamic": false,
	"proto": "dhcp",
	"device": "eth0",
	"data": {
		
	}
}

When I manually assigned IP address so it is reachable on the network, eg:

ip addr add 192.168.1.123/24 dev eth0

The status of ubus -v call network.interface.lan status call is the same. Meaning somehow netifd is not aware of the current ip configuration. How can I set ip address using ifconfig/ip temporarily (not saved in system config) in such a way that ubus call will returns up-to-date configration ?

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uci add_list network.lan.ipaddr="192.168.1.123/24"
/etc/init.d/network reload
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I understand I can change system configuration with UCI and it will work. But in my case I used ifconfig/ip set a temporary static IP address. Does it mean network.interface.lan only updates when init.d/network is reloaded and it is not aware of configuration change by ifconfig/ip ?

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Yes, I confirm this behavior.
Apparently ubus doesn't trace or query the actual runtime network configuration.

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uci > netifd <> ubus

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