On 15/10/2018 10:32, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:45:31 +0200 > Robert Varga <n...@hq.sk> wrote: >> The question is what are we going to do about this? >> >> One option is to implement >> https://jira.opendaylight.org/browse/MDSAL-18 for LazyDataObjects >> where the list is not restricted by min-elements > 0. >> >> Another is to have a utility method which turns nulls to empty lists. > Do you know how much effort the first option would take? (Going by the > comments on MDSAL-18, I get the impression you’ve already started > looking into it!) It would seem to be better in the long run...
The codec part is rather trivial, but the problem is DTOs -- it requires changing equality contracts and it affects all DTO use, not just where data store is involved. While if felt feasible yesterday, I cannot quite wrap my mind around impacts and what can break and where. I don't thing this really is an option before mdsal-4.0.0. Regards, Robert
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