Re: [netmod] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netmod-yang-tree-diagrams-02.txt

I would find an  option to show "uses" very useful, instead of always having to expand groupings.  Depending on the groupings and the amount of groupings reuse it can cut down complexity of trees substantially and directs focus to the forest, not the trees - really ultimately the intent of this.  

--- Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netmod [mailto:netmod-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Kent Watsen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 5:06 PM
> To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>;
> Robert Wilton <rwilton@cisco.com>
> Cc: netmod@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [netmod] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netmod-yang-tree-diagrams-
> 02.txt
> 
> From another thread in NETCONF, Juergen writes:
> 
>   I do not know whether the official tree diagram formats will
>   have ways to show say a container with used groupings collapsed.
>   This may actually be useful sometimes, but this is not what you
>   are look for here either. I am thinking about
> 
>    +--rw container
>       +-u-- <grouping>       (I'm guess 'u' for "uses")
>       +--rw regular-leaf
> 
>   Clearly, this is for a different thread...
> 
>   And I wrote back "It might be helpful to have the ability to
>   output a tree diagram that has not expanded its groupings.
>   But, as you say, for another thread."
> 
> 
> To add to this, I wrote a module recently that defined an RPC
> and yang-data around the same groupings.  An ability to 1) print
> the groupings and 2) only print references to the groupings,
> would've collapsed the tree-diagram tremendously.  For example:
> 
> rpcs:
> 
>   foobar
>     input
>       +-u-- <input-grouping>
>     output
>       +-u-- <output-grouping>
> 
> yang-data:
> 
>   input-artifact
>     +-u-- <input-grouping>
> 
>   output-artifact
>     +-u-- <output-grouping>
> 
> groupings:
> 
>   input-grouping
>    +-- <full tree here>
> 
>   output-grouping
>    +-- full tree here>
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Kent // contributor
> 
> 
> 
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