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Re: [netconf] YANG encoding in CBOR

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 28 March 2019 16:07 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netconf] YANG encoding in CBOR
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 08:50:34AM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 7:06 AM Michel Veillette <
> Michel.Veillette@trilliant.com> 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)?

/js

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