Re: [netmod] Proposal to enhance the YANG tree output

[Robert Wilton <[e-mail]>]

Perhaps "-X" could be used for "execute" instead?

Thanks,
Rob


On 15/09/2017 13:15, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:40:07PM +0200, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
>> Also, what is mounted under a mount point is not defined in the
>> schema, so a tool cannot generate this from the YANG modules.
>>
> This sounds broken. Manually edited tree diagrams will be a source of
> pain.
>   
>>> I definitely think that "x" is a bit confusing since it both means
>>> "RPC" and also "status deprecated" depending on where it is.
>> Possibly.  "x" for "deprecated" comes from smidump.  "x" for "execute"
>> (rwx) is of course common.  So if we should change something it is
>> probably "x" for "deprecated".  But "x" looks better than "d"...
>>
> Yep, I am probably guilty for the deprecated 'x'. For obsolete,
> smidump creates an 'o', so you have
>
>          +--- foo
>          x--- bar
>          o--- baz
>
> and I guess I visually liked it (and there was no execute in SNMP
> land). I guess I still kind of like this. If I would start from
> scratch for YANG, I would probably not use
>
>         rw  for configuration data
>         ro  for non-configuration data
>         -x  for rpcs and actions
>         -n  for notifications
>         mp   for schema mount points
>
> but rather single letters, e.g.
>
>         c  for configuration data
>         s  for non-configuration data
>         r  for rpcs and actions
>         n  for notifications
>         m  for schema mount points
>
> but this is a significant change to what we have done so far and
> finding agreement on a new notation is likely difficult.
>
> /js
>