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Re: [netmod] [Anima] revising RFC8366 -- Re: BRSKI-AE enum issue -> empty, but what's he encoding ?

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 05 July 2021 16:27 UTC

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To: tom petch <ietfc@btconnect.com>, "anima@ietf.org" <anima@ietf.org>, "Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <rwilton@cisco.com>, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>, "netmod@ietf.org" <netmod@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] [Anima] revising RFC8366 -- Re: BRSKI-AE enum issue -> empty, but what's he encoding ?
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Tom writes:
    > If by 'value' that means the value substatement of the 'enum' YANG
    > statement, then that may not give you what you expect.  What goes on
    > the wire is the text name string.  If a number is displayed to a user,
    > then it is because the local software had deduced one, perhaps from a
    > YANG module.  The text string is the authoritative definition, the
    > value conveys nothing.  If you want a value, then you need a different
    > type of leaf like an integer.  (In other languages, the binding of text
    > string to value is part of the specification of an enumeration - not in
    > YANG).

yes, it's a text string for XML and JSON,
this isn't the case for YANG-CBOR if a value is set.

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