[netmod] can a leaf of type "empty" have a "default" value?

Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net> Fri, 17 May 2019 19:52 UTC

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Subject: [netmod] can a leaf of type "empty" have a "default" value?
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A leaf with type "empty" is often times used to represent a boolean: present == set, not present == not set.  Is there a way in YANG to specify that the "empty" type leaf is "set" by default?  Perhaps like this:

    leaf flag {
        type empty;
        default "";
    }

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