I'm seeing similar issue in OVSDB too [1] and and have raised following fix
for it [2]. This looks like a API change and should've been communicated
better, maybe weather page and heads up to all consumers?

Regards,
Vishal.

[1]
https://jenkins.opendaylight.org/releng/job/ovsdb-maven-verify-fluorine-mvn33-openjdk8/89/console
[2] https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/71105/



On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Robert Varga <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 18/04/18 23:18, Anil Vishnoi wrote:
> > Robert, please respond to this thread, so others also get some clarity
> > on it, so you don't have to answer all the projects ;)
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Anil Vishnoi <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Robert Varga <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >         On 18/04/18 21:17, Anil Vishnoi wrote:
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Robert Varga <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> >         > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >         >
> >         >     Object.equals() is required to be reflexive. Your
> statement "this is
> >         >     not correct behavior" is based on your human understanding
> of the
> >         >     model (most notably reading English text in description),
> not
> >         >     something automation can infer. Therefore codegen cannot
> generate an
> >         >     .equals() method, which would be both conforming to the
> API contract
> >         >     and supporting "correct behavior".
> >         >
> >
> >         Hello Anil,
> >
> >         > ​Sorry robert, but i am not able to make sense out of what you
> are
> >         > saying. English language can be interpreted in many ways, but
> hopefully
> >         > you will agree that patterns has clear interpretation. Both
> ipv4-address
> >         > and ipv4-address-no-zone has clear pattern defined.
> >         >
> >         > typedef ipv4-address-no-zone {
> >         >       type ipv4-address {
> >                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >         >         pattern '[0-9\.]*';
> >         >       }
> >         >     }
> >         >  ​
> >         >
> >         > ​ typedef ipv4-prefix {
> >         >       type string {
> >         >         pattern
> >         >           '(([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-
> 9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){3}'
> >         >             + '([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]
> |2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])'
> >         >             + '/(([0-9])|([1-2][0-9])|(3[0-2]))';
> >         >       }
> >         >     }​
> >
> >         Wrong type, you meant to quote this:
> >
> >         >   typedef ipv4-address {
> >         >     type string {
> >         >       pattern
> >         >         '(([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-
> 9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){3}'
> >         >       +  '([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])'
> >         >       + '(%[\p{N}\p{L}]+)?';
> >         >     }
> >
> >         but aside from that, yes those patterns are clear. What is clear
> to
> >         humans, but not machines, is that:
> >
> >         1) an ipv4-address string really has two parts, a dotted-quad
> and an
> >         optional zone prefixed with %
> >
> >         2) ipv4-address-no-zone is an ipv4-address, which does not have
> >         a zone
> >
> >         Arriving at this distinction by analyzing the patterns involved
> >         is the
> >         challenge here -- as those are the only bits which a
> >         machine-understandable. I am pretty sure an algorithm to solve
> that
> >         problem, if it is even possible, would run in non-linear time
> >         and would
> >         probably be a major breakthrough in information technology.
> >
> >     ​Given that these pattern are already mapped to certain derive type,
> >     i assuming ​you don't have to do any breakthrough here to
> >     differentiate ipv4-address and ipv4-address-no-address, but i think
> >     the problem here is the way it's derived in the yang model itself.
> >
> >
> >         > And apart from that the failure is happening because equals is
> expecting
> >         > different class then ipv4address (which is changed in the
> above gerrit).
> >         > org.opendaylight.yang.gen.v1.urn.ietf.params.xml.ns.yang.
> ietf.inet.types.rev130715.Ipv4Address<Ipv4Address{_value=0.1.2.3}>
> >         > but was:
> >         > org.opendaylight.yang.gen.v1.urn.ietf.params.xml.ns.yang.
> ietf.inet.types.rev130715.Ipv4AddressNoZone<Ipv4Address{_value=0.1.2.3}>
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > I believe this is most probably happening because the way
> mdsal is
> >         > generating the code now for no-zone in your latest patch.
> >         >
> >         > Currently generated code for ipv4-address-no-zone is extending
> >         > ipv4-addresss (which is weird to me , subset extending
> superset)
> >
> >         You have to understand how YANG type system works, which is
> >         detailed in
> >         RFC7950 sections 4.2.4, 4.2.5, 7.3 and 7.4.
> >
> >         TL;DR; of that is that all YANG types are derived from a set of
> >         fixed
> >         built-in types. Derivation works by placing additional
> >         restrictions on
> >         the data, not extending the data set -- which is where the
> >         weirdness you
> >         perceive comes from.
> >
> >         In in any case
> >
> >         > public class Ipv4AddressNoZone extends Ipv4Address
> >
> >         is an accurate mapping of the semantic relationship between the
> >         two types:
> >
> >         -
> >         ​​
> >         any valid Ipv4AddressNoZone is a valid Ipv4Address, but not
> >         vice-versa.
> >         - creating an Ipv4Address from an Ipv4AddressNoZone is dirt cheap
> >         - creating an Ipv4AddressNoZone from an Ipv4Address requires
> >         validation
> >
> >         It is therefore clear that IetfInetUtil should be handing out
> >         Ipv4AddressNoZone objects -- as that is the semantically correct
> >         type
> >         capture of what is inside an Inet4Address.getAddress() array.
> >
> >         > Given that both ipv4-address-no-zone and ipv4-address are
> different
> >         > construct by definition, if mdsal generates these construct
> separately
> >         > (without extending) that should keep the backward
> compatibility without
> >         > breaking any downstream code.
> >
> >         They are not completely different constructs, they are related
> >         through
> >         derivation:
> >         - string is the base type of ipv4-address
> >         - ipv4-address is a type derived from string
> >         - ipv4-address-no-zone is a type derived from ipv4-address
> >
> >     ​Okay understood, it also means application can use these two derive
> >     types individually and should be comparable ? If that is the case,
> >     why the equal is failing in below line, given that match.getNwSrc()
> >     is returning IPv4Address?
>
> it is *declared* to return Ipv4Address, but returns a subclass.
>
> >             Assert.assertEquals("Wrong nw-src", new
> >     Ipv4Address("16.17.18.19"), match.getNwSrc());
> >     ​
> >
> >     ​I believe it's because internally for all the ip-address type it's
> >     generating IPv4AddressNoZone object? Also why i have to change my
> >     yang model to not use ipv4-address?
> >
> >     https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/71083/3/extension/
> openflowjava-extension-nicira/src/main/yang/nicira-action.yang
> >     <https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/71083/3/extension/
> openflowjava-extension-nicira/src/main/yang/nicira-action.yang>
>
> You do not have to, but...
>
> >     This is kind of causing an issue here in the overall understanding
> >     of using ipv4-address and ipv4-address-no-zone. There are two things
> >     that you mentioned
> >     (1) This is not conforming to the API contract but it's "correct"
> >     behavior.
> >     (2)
> >     ​
> >     any valid Ipv4AddressNoZone is a valid Ipv4Address, but not
> vice-versa.
> >
> >     (1) is going to introduce a confusion for the user here because of
> >     the way mdsal handles it and reading (2) basically says you don't
> >     really need ipv4-address-no-zone, you can use ipv4-address for
> >     ipv4-address-no-zone as well.
> >
> >     Based on these data points, i believe we should better not support
> >     ipv4-address-no-zone and suggest user to use ipv4-address, rather
> >     then introducing this feature and confusing users on how they should
> >     write the code around it.
>
> ... it is matter of what is the correct model. Given that OpenFlow has
> no notion of a zone, I believe ipv4-address-no-zone is the correct type
> representing OFPXMT_OFB_IPV4_*. To illustrate, can you explain what
> happens when a user specifies two matches, which differ only in zone,
> for example "1.2.3.4%a" and "1.2.3.4%b"?
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
>
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