Re: [netmod] yang-data-ext issues

Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> Wed, 25 April 2018 10:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] yang-data-ext issues
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> wrote:

> Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net> wrote:
> >
> > > People want to use YANG to define the schema for an XML or JSON
> > > representation of a stand-alone document.
> >
> > Agreed
> >
> >
> > > The only data needed must be module + local-name.
> >
> > Or maybe: module + local-name + context, where context is one of:
> >
> >   - data nodes
> >   - RPC/actions
> >   - notifications
> >   - standalone artifacts (files)
>
> I don't think we should use yang-data to model notifications.
> Presumably you meant error-info from rpc or action.
>
> And my point it is that I think that we should make yang-data
> flexible enoough in itself, and not constrain it to the one or two use
> cases we know now.
>
> > At least, it seems that these are different things.
> >
> > [Note: RESTCONF places some of the context into the URL; two different
> > data node resources can have identical module + local-name.]
> >
> > It would be bad if two stand-alone artifacts had the same
> > module+local-name (foo:bar).  However, it's okay to have a matching
> > top-level data node called "foo:bar", since it is used in a different
> > context.  Just like yang-data cannot be accessed as data via a
> > protocol like NC or RC, so it is that traditionally-defined data nodes
> > cannot be accessed as a stand-alone artifact (unless you’re a
> > draft-author and need an instance document for an example).
> >
> >
> > > Defining an extension that maps error-info data for a specific RPC
> > > might be
> > > something worth standardizing.  It should not be done with yang-data,
> > > but rather a different extension just for this purpose.
> >
> > Martin wrote before:
> >
> >             (maybe in the future we could even have a YANG extension
> statement
> >             to
> >             formalize the description:
> >
> >                rpc my-first-rpc {
> >                  ...
> >                  opx:error-info-structure my-first-rpc-error-info;
> >                }
> >
> >             but this is not point now.)
> >
> > I imagined that he was hoping to limit what's needed to get
> > draft-ietf-netconf-notification-messages out the door now, but I think
> > another I-D should be proposed to augment the 'rpc' and 'action'
> > statements with an anydata called "error-info-structure" so the YANG
> > would be more like this:
> >
> >                rpc my-first-rpc {
> >                  ...
> >                  opx:error-info-structure my-first-rpc-error-info {
> >                      …
> >                    }
> >                }
>
> No I was thinking along the lines of:
>
>   ydx:yang-data my-first-rpc-error-info {
>     ...
>   }
>
>   rpc my-first-rpc {
>     ...
>     opx:error-info-structure my-first-rpc-error-info;
>   }
>
> I.e., use yang-data to define a structure, and use another statement
> to tie them together.
>
> If we define special statements with inline structures, we probably
> also need special augment statements; with your example:
>
>
>   rpc my-first-rpc {
>     ...
>     opx:error-info-structure my-first-rpc-error-info {
>       ...
>     }
>   }
>
>
>   opx:augment-error-info-structure '/m:my-first-rpc'
>                                  + '/m:my-first-rpc-error-info {
>     ...
>   }
>
>


This could easily be defined to use groupings instead:



  grouping my-first-rpc-error-info {
    ...
  }

  rpc my-first-rpc {
    ...
    opx:error-info-structure my-first-rpc-error-info;
  }


 There is no need to reinvent the grouping.



> /martin
>
>

Andy



>
>
>
> > That is, to your point, with no reference to a yang-data data
> > structure.
> >
> >
> > > Andy
> >
> > Kent // contributor
> >
>