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Re: [Cbor] correctness of implied top level array?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 13 March 2019 16:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] correctness of implied top level array?
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On Mar 13, 2019, at 17:49, John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Great with a document that define a CBOR sequence. I have already made draft-bormann-cbor-sequence a normative reference in EDHOC.
> 
> I would like to see CDDL and CBOR diagnostic notation for a CBOR sequence. In lack of something better, EDHOC is currently using the CDDL group notation:
> 
> message_1 = (
>  TYPE : int,
>  SUITES_U : suite / [ index: uint, 2* suite ],
>  X_U : bstr,
>  C_U : bstr,
>  ID_PSK : bstr / header_map,
>  ? UAD_1 : bstr,
> )

That is probably where we want to go, but not with CDDL version 1.
For now, both diagnostic notation and CDDL can use an array and just say in English that we are not using a single data item but a CBOR sequence instead.

Grüße, Carsten

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