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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 25 March 2019 07:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netconf] [core] YANG encoding in CBOR
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On Mar 25, 2019, at 07:52, ivaylo petrov <ivaylo@ackl.io> wrote:
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> [IP]: Carsten, your idea for the good solution would be to keep the way enum values are sent now outside of unions and only send the SIDs inside unions, is that correct?

Yes, as most enums occur outside unions, so good design principles say the cost of the feature of unions of enums should only be paid by those who actually use them.

> If so, this sounds as a very good solution to me. It might add a bit of complexity in the SID generation, but I would expect it to be rather small.

I think we need to make a few examples to check out how that would look like.

Grüße, Carsten