CBOR Encoding of Data Modeled with YANG
draft-ietf-core-yang-cbor-13
Internet Engineering Task Force M. Veillette, Ed.
Internet-Draft Trilliant Networks Inc.
Intended status: Standards Track I. Petrov, Ed.
Expires: January 5, 2021 A. Pelov
Acklio
July 04, 2020
CBOR Encoding of Data Modeled with YANG
draft-ietf-core-yang-cbor-13
Abstract
This document defines encoding rules for serializing configuration
data, state data, RPC input and RPC output, action input, action
output, notifications and yang-data extension defined within YANG
modules using the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
[RFC7049].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology and Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Properties of the CBOR Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. CBOR diagnostic notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2. YANG Schema Item iDentifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3. Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Encoding of YANG Schema Node Instances . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1. The 'leaf' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1.1. Using SIDs in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1.2. Using names in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. The 'container' and other nodes from the data tree . . . 10
4.2.1. Using SIDs in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.2. Using names in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3. The 'leaf-list' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3.1. Using SIDs in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3.2. Using names in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4. The 'list' and 'list' instance(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.1. Using SIDs in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4.2. Using names in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.5. The 'anydata' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.5.1. Using SIDs in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.5.2. Using names in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.6. The 'anyxml' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.6.1. Using SIDs in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.6.2. Using names in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5. Encoding of 'yang-data' extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1. Using SIDs in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2. Using names in keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6. Representing YANG Data Types in CBOR . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.1. The unsigned integer Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.2. The integer Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.3. The 'decimal64' Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.4. The 'string' Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.5. The 'boolean' Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.6. The 'enumeration' Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6.7. The 'bits' Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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