Re: [netmod] xpaths and Wrapping Long Lines - draft-ietf-netmod-yang-tree-diagrams-03

Ian Farrer <ianfarrer@gmx.com> wrote:
> Thanks. This suggestion seems cleanest. Can the tree diagrams draft
> be updated to describe this?

I suggest we add to the section "Wrapping Long Lines"

NEW:

Long paths (e.g., leafref paths or augment targets) can be split and
printed on more than one line.  For example:

  augment /nat:nat/nat:instances/nat:instance/nat:mapping-table
            /nat:mapping-entry:

then also fix in 2.6:

OLD:

      If the type is a leafref, the type is printed as "-> TARGET",
      where TARGET is either the leafref path, with prefixes removed
      if possible.

NEW:

      If the type is a leafref, the type is either printed as
      "-> TARGET", where TARGET is the leafref path, with prefixes
      removed if possible, or printed as "leafref".

FYI, I have fixed pyang so that it breaks long augment targets:

$ pyang -f tree --tree-line-length 55 x.yang 
module: x
  augment /y:pretty-long-identifier-name/y:shorter
            /y:another-long-identifier-name
            /y:also-short/y:but-this-is-long-again:
    +--rw bar?   string

/martin

> 
> BR,
> Ian
> 
> 
> > On 21. Dec 2017, at 11:43, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:39:47AM +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > 
> >> But this is in the YANG source; I think Ian asked about the tree
> >> diagram syntax.  Maybe the corresponding syntax in the tree diagram
> >> could be simply:
> >> 
> >> augment /nat:nat/nat:instances/nat:instance
> >>        /nat:mapping-table/nat:mapping-entry:
> > 
> > Works for me.
> > 
> >> Or even simpler, maybe we can say that any string in the tree diagram
> >> syntax can follow the YANG string rules.
> > 
> > The YANG string rules are for machines to get the parsing right. Since
> > the tree diagrams are for humans, the less noise the better.
> > 
> > /js
> > 
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