Re: [netmod] rfc 6087bis - stress importance of instance examples

Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> Thu, 09 March 2017 07:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] rfc 6087bis - stress importance of instance examples
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> On 8 Mar 2017, at 18:40, Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net> wrote:
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>>> I think we should encourage authors to write examples.
>> 
>> +1  And also encourage authors to validate the examples 
>> using their favorite YANG instance validation tool.
> 
> 
> Please note this from the latest 6087bis update:
> 
>   4.12.  Module Usage Examples
> 
>   Each specification that defines one or more modules SHOULD contain
>   usage examples, either throughout the document or in an appendix.
>   This includes example XML instance document snippets to demonstrate
>   the intended usage of the YANG module(s).
> 
> and I already wrote this:
> 
>  Nice addition, but should it say something about JSON, in addition to XML?

I'd suggest:

"This includes example instance documents or snippets in an appropriate encoding to demonstrate the intended usage of the YANG module(s)."

Lada

>  Perhaps that, unless there is a reason to only pick one encoding, examples
>  should be split between the two?  - just throwing it out there to see if this is
>  something we might want to recommend...thoughts?
> 
>  https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/netmod/dOpSYzM_J05Sdmgt-MyYmqJIUz0
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> K.
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