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Re: [netconf] YANG encoding in CBOR

Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> Mon, 25 March 2019 08:32 UTC

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From: Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz>
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Subject: Re: [netconf] YANG encoding in CBOR
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Carsten Bormann píše v Po 25. 03. 2019 v 09:12 +0100:
> On Mar 25, 2019, at 09:06, Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> wrote:
> > Perhaps the easiest way would be to use (optional) annotation that
> > specifies, using an ordinal number, which of the member types is used
> > for the particular instance. But since there can be unions inside
> > unions, a list of numbers would be needed in general.
> 
> Is the sequential number of the alternative supposed to be “stable”?
> (I.e., would there be confusion if an alternative is inserted in the middle?
> Which you may want to do while we still do “first match wins”.)

Inserting a new member type in the middle also affects the current algorithm for
union type resolution, so it is not permitted by the module update rules (sec.
11 in RFC 7950).

> 
> If yes, a list of those numbers may indeed be sufficient to always stay with
> values for CBOR.

And it is also a solution that works the same for any data representation, as
long as it can encode annotations.

Lada

> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
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Ladislav Lhotka
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