Re: [yang-doctors] Identities vs enums

"Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <rwilton@cisco.com> wrote:

[...]

> Yes.  I'm questioning (for a future version of YANG) whether enums
> should have somewhat similar flexibility as identities (yes, I
> appreciate that there are value/name collision concerns).

You can also use a union of an enumeration and an identity.

/martin

> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 
> 
> > 
> > /js
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:24:59AM +0000, Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote:
> > > I doubt that this is the first time that this has come up ...
> > >
> > > draft-ietf-netmod-intf-ext-yang-07, defines 3 identities (along with a
> > base identity) for loopback configuration: "loopback-internal",
> > "loopback-
> > line" and "loopback-connector".
> > >
> > > One of the reviewers is complaining that the "loopback-" prefix in the
> > identity is redundant and noisy.  I.e. he doesn't like having to write
> > loopback='loopback-internal', and would like to be able to write
> > loopback='internal' instead.
> > >
> > > His main suggestion is to move these loopback (or perhaps just the
> > identities) to a separate YANG module so that they don't need to
> > define a
> > "loopback-" prefix.
> > >
> > > There seem to be some choices here:
> > >
> > > (1) Keep with identities with a "loopback-" prefix.  This causes
> > loopback='loopback-internal'
> > >
> > > (2) Keep with identities, but loose the common prefix, i.e. the
> > identities become "internal", "line", "connector".  Given the size of
> > the
> > module, the likelihood of an identity naming clash in future seems
> > quite
> > small, but they are somewhat generic terms.
> > > (3) Use shorter identity names, but also put them in a separate types
> > module (as requested by the reviewer).
> > > (4) Use an enum rather than identities.  Although this has the
> > > potential
> > issue that the enum cannot be extended (which I'm wondering if this is
> > something that we should consider changing in the hypothetical YANG
> > Next).
> > >
> > > Personally, I'm toying with changing to 4 or perhaps 2.  I'm not keen
> > > on
> > 3.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts or opinions from the YANG doctors?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rob
> > >
> > 
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