Hi Kristian, Completely agree. My suggestion for a tuples type is really for YANG Next. I'll add it to the tracker so that it can be discussed.
For the immediate problem, I agree with defining a combined type. Juergen's proposal looks good to me. Thanks, Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: netmod <netmod-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Kristian Larsson > Sent: 02 April 2019 13:28 > To: netmod@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [netmod] 6991bis: address-with-prefix-length > > Hi Rob, > > On 2019-04-02 14:17, Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: netmod <netmod-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Martin > Bjorklund > >> Sent: 01 April 2019 18:30 > >> To: Acee Lindem (acee) <a...@cisco.com> > >> Cc: netmod@ietf.org > >> Subject: Re: [netmod] 6991bis: address-with-prefix-length > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> The request was for a combined type that contains both an ip address > >> *and* a prefix length in one value. Hence the name > >> "ip-address-and-prefix- length" :) > >> > >> I know that this type is convenient, esp. if you use it for manual > >> input, but I wonder if it really is good practice to squeeze two values > >> into > one. > > > > Perhaps allowing YANG to support a tuple type would be an elegant > solution. I.e. the value exists on a single path, and has to be atomically > updated, but the value can still be composed from different types. > > I think that would be a great addition to YANG. I've had numerous > discussions over the awkardness of using a grouping to group multiple leaves > together when you really want to define some form of compound / tuple > type. > > However, that is a longer term project and IMHO not something that should > stop adding a ip-address-and-prefix-length type to 6991bis today :) > > Kind regards, > Kristian. > > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > netmod@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
