"GUBALLA, JENS (JENS)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Lada,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ladislav Lhotka [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Freitag, 11. Dezember 2015 11:51
> > To: GUBALLA, JENS (JENS)
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [netmod] How to model a leafref in union conforming to
> > RFC6020?
> >
> >
> > > On 11 Dec 2015, at 10:29, GUBALLA, JENS (JENS) <jens.guballa@alcatel-
> > lucent.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > According to RFC6020 a leafref within a union is not allowed. This
> > > issue is captured by Y30 of the yang1.1 issue list.
> > >
> > > My question: how can such a construct as show below be modeled
> > > conforming to RFC6020?
> > >
> > > leaf the_reference {type uint8;}
> > > leaf something {
> > > type union {
> > > type leafref {
> > > path "../the_reference";
> > > }
> > > type enumeration {
> > > enum "none";
> > > enum "something-else";
> > > }
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > Has anyone any ideas or can someone provide me a pointer if this has
> > > been discussed already?
> >
> > You can define the first union member simply as uint8, without being
> > formally coupled with "the_reference". I'd suggest to use YANG 1.1
> > though where that CLR was removed.
> [JG] Thanks a lot for your suggestions. Replacing "type leafref" by "type
> unit8" would mean to lose the semantic of the leafref type. Thus
>
> <the_reference>5</the_reference>
> <something>4</something>
>
> would unfortunately be regarded as compliant to the model.
>
> On the other hand the data model should be Yang1.0 compliant. So I want to
> check if there is any other solution to the issue.
Another common way to handle this is to do a choice of two leafs:
choice s {
leaf something-as-leafreaf { type leafreaf ... }
leaf something-as-enum { ... }
}
/martin
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