Re: [netmod] Add "token" to rfc6991-bis? (was: Re: Add "node-instance-identifier" to rfc6991-bis?)

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 17 April 2020 15:43 UTC

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:43:20 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] Add "token" to rfc6991-bis? (was: Re: Add "node-instance-identifier" to rfc6991-bis?)
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 03:16:58PM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote:
> [changing subject line]
> 
> > On Apr 17, 2020, at 4:16 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 01:13:54AM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote:
> >> 
> >>>>>> PS: the "token” type add discussion from before never completed (again, modeled after xsd:token)
> >>>> 
> >>>> What about this?
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> What would this type be good for? Any models already using something
> >>> like this?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Not in a standard model, that I’m aware of but, back at Juniper, I had a typedef for this that I used as a basis for so many things, but mostly things intended to be identifiers of sorts, whereby having whitespace didn’t make sense.
> >> 
> > 
> > This type does not eliminate whitespace, it only reduces multiple
> > consecutive whitespaces to one.
> 
> Leading/trailing whitespace :sigh:  Too pedantic much?
> 
> Please, think about the gazillion models where there is this:
> 
>     leaf name {
>         type string;
>         description ”An arbitrary name for the…”;
>     }
> 
> It’s obvious the name shouldn’t contain paragraphs of text or, in general, non-printable characters of any sort, or preceding/trailing space characters.  Given this preponderance of this use case and the history of module-writers not defining the necessary pattern statements, a “token” type would be welcomed.   For instance:
> 
>     leaf name {
>         type token;
>         description ”An arbitrary name for the…”;
>     }
> 

xsd:token only collapses white space, it does not solve the problem
you are talking about. And some people have argued in the past that
sane operators will not put weird characters into their names. If I
were to define an identifier type, I would consider to disallow white
space instead of collapsing white space. Frankly, if your code can
deal with one whitespace, it likely can deal with two.

While the LMAP model was developed, I had a restricted identifier type
in the LMAP data model. I then implemented the code to enforce the
restriction. And then I figured out that the code to escape funny
characters was not much longer than the code to reject funny
characters and so I ended up removing the restriction.

This ties into the discussion whether YANG should do anything about
normalization and so far we always ended up with declaring this to be
an operational problem. If you put non-normalized strings into your
config, you need to be prepared to deal with the consequences.

Anyway, if we were to address this issue, then xsd:token will most
likely not be the answer.

/js

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