Re: [yang-doctors] YANG dialects?

> On Dec 18, 2019, at 11:27 AM, Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed in the help output for pyang 2.1:
> 
>   --mef                 Validate the module(s) according to MEF rules.
>   --ieee                Validate the module(s) according to IEEE rules.
>   --ietf                Validate the module(s) according to IETF rules.
>   --bbf                 Validate the module(s) according to BBF rules.
>   --lint                Validate the module(s) according to RFC 8407rules.
> 
> 
> I guess --openconfig is missing (since they have their own rules for YANG as well)
> 
> I hope these different rules are for style only, and not redefining YANG.
> I suspect it is more than that..

—mef and —ieee were added because those two use namespaces whose syntax is different from ietf. I suspect the same is true for —bbf. There are no other changes/redefinitions of YANG for those models.

Cheers.

> 
> I am aware of at least 3 openconfig issues that do not follow YANG rules:
>    - repurposing pattern-stmt to use a different syntax
>    - referencing config=false nodes from config=true context node for when-stmts
>    - use of identity strings without prefixes in XPath, where the default module does
>      not contain the identity (it is in an imported module instead)
> 
> Should we just continue hacking the tools in proprietary ways to deal with
> the inconsistencies? Are there any issues the IETF (or YANG doctors)
> could or should address?
> 
> For starters, can somebody explain the different rules pyang is checking here?
> 
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
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