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Re: [netmod] choice/case in tree diagrams

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Mon, 05 March 2018 13:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] choice/case in tree diagrams
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Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 02:14:26PM +0100, Vladimir Vassilev wrote:
> > On 03/05/2018 01:50 PM, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> > 
> > > I prefer that the choice/case nodes do not have any flags since they
> > > are not having a config true/false property on their own. And less
> > > clutter is better.
> >
> > 'choice' statements have 'config' substatement while 'case' do not. I myself
> > figured that out while I was implementing tree diagrams support.
> > 
> > I would prefer the current pyang output and a change to the yang-tree
> > document to specify that nodes without config substatement do not have
> > <flags>.
> >
> 
> So it seems the running code got it right. ;-)

As the author of that code, I think that was purely by accident...

But I'm not convinced it is the correct solution.  We have one example
in the other thread where someone was confused by the "rw" flag and
thought that it implied that the node would be present in the data
tree.


/martin

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