Hi,

I do not want YANG to have augment for groupings because there is
no way to control all possible uses-stmts and make sure the augmentation
is only used where intended.  This seems no different than OO code.
A new class name is required for the derived class. In YANG a new grouping
is required and specific uses-stmts have to be updated to use the new
grouping.


Andy


On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Alexander Clemm <
[email protected]> wrote:

> IMHO it would be worth a try.  If you wanted to only augment _some_ uses
> of a grouping, you could still do the same as today.  Also, I would expect
> augmentations to only affect servers that support the module defining the
> augmentation.  If verbosity were not an issue, why were groupings
> introduced in the first place?
> --- Alex
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: netmod [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juergen
> > Schoenwaelder
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:15 AM
> > To: Xufeng Liu <[email protected]>
> > Cc: NETMOD WG <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [netmod] Augmentation to Groupings
> >
> > The current approach may be verbose but it protects users of groupings
> from
> > unwanted and uncontrolled side effects. Augmenting a grouping as
> > suggested affects _all_ uses of a grouping; this can be tricky in
> situations
> > where groupings are widely used.
> >
> > /js
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:45:06AM -0500, Xufeng Liu wrote:
> > > During the discussions of TE tunnel and topology models, we have found
> > > that it is desirable to have the capability of augmenting a grouping.
> > >
> > > In our case, there are multiple technology specific models augmenting
> > > a base generic model. In the base model, some groupings are used
> > > multiple times, and each augmentation model needs to add more schema
> > > nodes to the grouping structure. For now, we have to specify an
> > > “augment” statement for each location where the grouping is used. Such
> > > an “augment” statement is repeated many times. It would be convenient
> > > and cleaner if we could augment the grouping.
> > >
> > > We’d like to hear opinions on the feasibility of such a capability.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > - Xufeng
> >
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