Re: [netmod] YANG identities and identityref's

On 5/3/18, 2:40 PM, "Ladislav Lhotka" <lhotka@nic.cz> wrote:

    On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 18:00 +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
    > Hi Lada, 
    > 
    > So you have a base identify of foo-type and subordinates of foo-type-1, foo-
    > type-2, ... foo-type-9. You have a data leaf that type identityref foo-type
    > but the actual instantiation is not one of the known foo-types. Should a foo-
    > type-unknown be defined to return for this case or should one just return foo-
    > type? 

    Hmm, the actual instantiation looks like invalid data. If the leaf is an
    identityref with "foo-type" as its base, then permitted values are exactly those
    "foo-type-[1-9]".

The whole reason to use identities rather than enums is to allow for incremental extension. With routing protocols, it is possible if not likely to have an instantiation of a data leaf that is unknown. So, we absolutely need to handle this case. 

Acee 

    If the server supports a particular type, then I would expect it to implement a
    module where the identity corresponding to that type is defined.

    Lada 

    >  
    > 
    > Thanks,
    > Acee
    > 
    > On 5/3/18, 1:49 PM, "netmod on behalf of Ladislav Lhotka" <netmod-bounces@iet
    > f.org on behalf of lhotka@nic.cz> wrote:
    > 
    >     Hi Acee,
    >     
    >     I am not sure what you mean by unknown identities. In general, the
    > identity used
    >     as the base of an identityref (or in Xpath functions derived-from/derived-
    > from-
    >     or-self) should be the most general identity that can match at the given
    > place.
    >     
    >     Do you have any example illustrating your case?
    >     
    >     Lada
    >     
    >     
    >     On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 17:30 +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
    >     > Let’s say one define a base identity with a hierarchy of identifyref’s
    > using
    >     > it. This will allow for augmentation in future models. Should one also
    > define
    >     > an identityref for the class of unknown identities? Or, should one
    > simply
    >     > return the lowest parent in the hierarchy matching the value? Many
    > times, this
    >     > would be the base identity.
    >     >  
    >     > Thanks,
    >     > Acee
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