Re: [netmod] yang-data-ext issues

Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> Tue, 24 April 2018 19:18 UTC

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From: Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] yang-data-ext issues
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> wrote:

> Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> wrote:
> > > ....
> > > >
> > > > I do not understand the need for a yang-data structure that
> represents
> > > data
> > > > that can be instantiated anywhere and everywhere.
> > >
> > > AFAIK noone is proposing that.
> > >
> > > > I do not want to break
> > > > existing tools that expect sibling data nodes in the same module
> > > namespace
> > > > to
> > > > be unique local-names.
> > > >
> > > > I would rather stick with the yang-data in RFC 8040 than introduce a
> new
> > > > extension
> > > > with no restrictions.  Standard YANG extensions should be
> interoperable
> > > and
> > > > have
> > > > a clear purpose.
> > >
> > > Of course.
> > >
> > > > If we do not need to define what a YANG extension does in
> > > > a way that can be observed somehow, then it does not need to be a
> > > standard.
> > >
> > > Agreed.
> > >
> > > Not sure how any of this helps with the original issue though.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You proposed that duplicate nodes were OK:
> >
> > module X {
> > prefix x;
> >
> > x:yang-data A {
> >    list foo { ... }
> > }
> >
> > x:yang-data B {
> >   container foo { ... }
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > I do not want to allow any duplicates.
>
> Yes, I got that.
>
> > There are no encoding and parsing rules for instance data
> > that support this sort of duplicate.
>
> This is not correct, as I have demonstrated earlier, and I think you
> also accepted; if different structures are defined for different rpcs'
> error-infos, then these structures can have the same child node names.
>
> I think that we have to agree on the basics before disussing
> solutions:
>
>   1)  Should we do anything at all?
>
>       (i.e., keep using yang-data in RFC 8040)
>
>   2)  Should we define structures that only can be used in
>       standalone instance documents?
>
>       (i.e., *more* restrictive than yang-data in RFC 8040)
>
>   3)  Should we define structures that can be used in standalone
>       instance documents, error-info contents, and other places that
>       we might not know right now?
>
>       (i.e., *less* restrictive than yang-data in RFC 8040)
>
>
> Since the current draft says:
>
>    The "yang-data" extension statement from RFC
>    8040 [RFC8040] is defined for this purpose, however it is limited in
>    its functionality.
>
>    The intended use of the "yang-data" extension is to model all or part
>    of a protocol message, such as the "errors" definition in ietf-
>    restconf.yang [RFC8040], or the contents of a file.  However,
>    protocols are often layered such that the header or payload portions
>    of the message can be extended by external documents.  The YANG
>    statements that model a protocol need to support this extensibility
>    that is already found in that protocol.
>
>
> I thought we are doing (3).
>
>
>
The use-case that has come up several times is (1).
People want to use YANG to define the schema for an XML or JSON
representation of a stand-alone document.

Item (3) needs to be machine-readable and deterministic for it to be even
remotely
feasible as a standard. There is no way a tool should have to match <x:foo>
to
the correct schema, based on the description-stmt inside some
yang-data-stmt.
The only data needed must be module + local-name.

The example you gave of different definitions of the <reason> leaf is a
really bad idea.
We should never try to define different schema for the same instance data,
where the module-name and local-name are the same, but the contents are
different.

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
>

Andy


>
>
>
> > yang-data definitions define conceptual data nodes (e.g, /x:foo)
> > Only one data-def-stmt (in yang-data or otherwise) can define a data node
> > /x:foo.
> > The descriptive names for the yang-data (A or B) do not define
> namespaces.
> >
> >
> >
> > > /martin
> > >
> > >
> > Andy
>