Re: [babel] [netmod] NULL value for uint16
Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 14 September 2021 18:36 UTC
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On 14. Sep 2021, at 19:17, Jürgen Schönwälder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote: > > If other data models use an extended integer range and -1 to indicate > a special case, then this may be a strong reason to do the same in the > IETF YANG data model. Any data model based on FORTRAN certainly will do. Most other data modeling languages by now should have nullable/optional/Maybe types. Going from the actual data type, uint16, to int32, just to accommodate the “not present” case, strikes me as a mistake. (Which doesn’t mean that you may not want to do this in an implementation, after having validated the input data.) Grüße, Carsten
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- Re: [babel] [netmod] NULL value for uint16 Jürgen Schönwälder
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- Re: [babel] [netmod] NULL value for uint16 Jürgen Schönwälder
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