Re: [yang-doctors] Definition for base64

[Andy Bierman <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Aren't you confusing YANG data types with message encoding?
A base64 string at the YANG level is just a string. There are no
non-printable chars
like a binary string could have.  Not sure why the type base64 is
interesting in YANG data models.


Andy


On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Mahesh Jethanandani <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Is there a definition for base64 defined in one of the YANG models? I
> would prefer to use one if it defined. If not, I was going to define one as
>
>  typedef base64 {
>     type string {
>       pattern '(([A-Za-z0-9+/]{4})*([A-Za-z0-9+/]{3}=|'
>             + '[A-Za-z0-9+/]{2}==)?){1}';
>     }
>     description
>       "A binary-to-text encoding scheme to represent binary data in
>        an ASCII string format.";
>     reference
>       "RFC 4648, The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings";
>   }
>
> Mahesh Jethanandani
> [e-mail]
>
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