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

Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> Sun, 24 March 2019 22:52 UTC

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From: Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:52:21 -0700
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To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Subject: Re: [netconf] [core] YANG encoding in CBOR
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 3:24 PM Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

> On Mar 24, 2019, at 12:29, Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > The answer seems to be simple but inefficient:
> > Always encode bits or enumeration as a string, if this is within a union
> type.
>
> For enum values within unions (which are already handled specially by
> giving them a CBOR tag) we could simply use a SID (that we then would have
> to generate for each enum value) instead of a string.  We could also extend
> this to enums outside unions; but here the recurrence to the (outside
> unions unambiguous) value sounds better to me.
>
> Bits.  Oh.  Same procedure, I’d say.
>
>
This seems like it would make the SID file very complicated.
Not sure it would work since leaf/leaf-list can define their own types.
Plus, all the enum typedefs would have to be numbered this way.
Maybe the SID authors can comment on how this would be done.




> Grüße, Carsten
>
>
Andy