Re: [core] [netconf] YANG encoding in CBOR

[Andy Bierman <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 9:07 AM Juergen Schoenwaelder <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 08:50:34AM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 7:06 AM Michel Veillette <
> > [e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > > +1 for value outside, string inside union
> > >
> > >
> > This is simple, but I was trying to support some very common types (like
> > ip-address)
> > that are unions of strings, and are desirable to send as binary instead
> of
> > string representation.
> >
>
> How does CBOR deal with say inet:ipv4-address? Does inet:ipv4-address
> magically get converted into a binary format? If not, the surprise that
> it is a string in a union is not a bit surprise.
>
> It seems to take full advantage of binary formats efficiently we need
> some additional magic. The YANG language requires the definition of
> canonical (textual) format. Do we need a way to define corresponding
> canonical binary formats for some of the types (where the default
> textual format is inefficient to send as a string)?
>
>
I thought there was a magic tag for an IPv4 address.
I don't see it now.  Maybe it got removed.



> /js
>

Andy


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