Re: [YANG] default values

Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net> wrote:
> Balazs Lengyel writes:
> >Why would the presence container come back automatically? There's today no text in the d
> >raft, 
> >that says presence containers are automatically removed or created.
> 
> "come back" in the virtual sense, so if the element isn't it the
> document, it implicitly is there.  Isn't that what Martin meant by
> "present by default"?

You're right, this won't work, or maybe we should say that it is
different.  It is more of an "initial-value" than default.

The original use case was this:

> Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com> wrote:
>   
>> A trivial example is a boolean knob (or presence container in YANG)
>> that represents some service or feature, and the WG agrees it is 'off' 
>> by default.

This cannot be done in current YANG.

/martin

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