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Re: [netmod] regarding draft-bierman-netmod-yang-data-ext-00

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 01 September 2017 20:55 UTC

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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 22:55:11 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] regarding draft-bierman-netmod-yang-data-ext-00
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 07:21:55PM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote:
> 
> The grouping approach only works for 'B' if the definition of 'A'
> had the foresight to define a grouping 'B' could use, but 'C' could
> be out of luck.

This is generally true. YANG kind of require to design something for
reuse (and often you have to be carefuly how you word descriptions
etc.  for things that are intended to be reused).
 
> Gotcha.  What do other people think, would a "uses-yang-data"
> statement be generally more useful?

But does this mean we also do uses-yang-container, uses-yang-list,
uses-yang-xyz to other definitions as well? I do not think this is
desirable and why would yang-data be any different?

/js

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