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Re: [yang-doctors] guideline for enum and value?

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 14 February 2018 15:47 UTC

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:47:40 +0100
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Benoit Claise <bclaise@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [yang-doctors] guideline for enum and value?
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 04:25:48PM +0100, Benoit Claise wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Trying to see if there is a common guideline among YANG doctors (to be added
> in RFC6087bis)
> 
> What about a mix of:
> 
>   YANG automatically assigns numeric values to enums if no values are
>   specified. This automatic assignment requires that (a) the order of
>   enums never changes and (b) additional enums are only appended but
>   never prepended or inserted.

OK
 
> And:
> 
>  Do not use explicit 'value' statements, except if:
>     o the enum corresponds to some standard integer value, or
>     o you update the set of enums by inserting new enums in the middle of
> the list

I am not sure why we would recommend this.

/js

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