[netmod] yang canonical integer format

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 03 March 2017 15:53 UTC

Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:53:22 +0100
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: [netmod] yang canonical integer format
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Reply-To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>

Hi,

the canonical format for integer types is the decimal representation.
We do not seem to have a mechanism (other than a description statement)
to declare that the canonical representation is lets say hexadecimal.
For example, EtherType <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherType> values
are usually written in hexadecimal notation. If I use a plain uint16
to represent an EtherType, it comes out of a datastore rendered as a
decimal number - and all I have is a description statement... Would
be nice to say something like

  typedef ether-type {
    type uint16 { format "%x"; }
  }

in plain YANG to make the hexadecimal format the canonical format. Who
maintains ideas for the next YANG revision?

/js

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