Re: YANG inspirations for TD

YANG model in pull request https://github.com/conas/wot/pull/2

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Charpenay, Victor <
victor.charpenay@siemens.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
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> there was one point that is maybe not clearly exposed in the proposal: the
> type definition should be embeddable in a Thing Description, meaning
> serializing it in JSON should be possible. Is it the case with YANG? If
> not, please add it in the “Note” column.
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> Thanks for your contribution.
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> Regards,
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> Victor
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> *From:* Robert Gallas [mailto:gallas.robert@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2016 20:57
> *To:* Peintner, Daniel (ext) (CT RDA NEC EMB-DE)
> *Cc:* public-wot-ig@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: YANG inspirations for TD
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> Hi Daniel
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> I'll add new column for YANG to the comparison table.
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> Robert
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> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Peintner, Daniel (ext) <
> daniel.peintner.ext@siemens.com> wrote:
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> Hi Robert,
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> A modeling language can be useful on different levels.
> One aspect we we have been looking at was "how" to describe datatypes. An
> initial comparison can be found here:
> https://github.com/w3c/wot/tree/master/proposals/type-system
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> YANG is on the list to be reviewed. It seems that you have experience with
> YANG. Do you think you can add information about YANG and enrich the
> comparison table?
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> Would be really helpful!
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> Thanks,
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> -- Daniel
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> *Von:* Robert Gallas [gallas.robert@gmail.com]
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 3. Oktober 2016 08:41
> *An:* public-wot-ig@w3.org
> *Betreff:* YANG inspirations for TD
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> Hi all,
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> There is and ongoing discussion about thing description (TD). I'd like to
> point community to YANG modelling language ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/
> rfc6020 ) . YANG is built to address very same requirements as TD. It has
> updatable properties, rpc`s, event streams, data types etc.
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> However even YANG is complex language and out of W3C standards it has some
> interesting concepts which can serve as an inspiration for next TD version.
> I mean mainly:
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> - hierachical data model (helps in model maintainability and supports
> contexts)
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> - value constraints (great help at UI generation, widget design and
> reduces network traffic)
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> - interaction types concept (good for extensibility)
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> Hope helps a bit.
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> Robert
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