50 min | Discussion on "class" and "data type" concepts | All | - Chris uploaded Entities and Datatatypes ONF.docx contribution, not discussed in detail as Chris is missing.
- From Chris' contribution: Datatypes are also often called “Value Objects”.
- Agreed that a datatype is conceptually a "class" which all attributes are keys. Karthik says that this is exactly the opposite of YANG grouping, hence datatypes cannot be mapped with YANG groupings. Nigel replies that groupings do not have an identity. Karthik recalls that IISOMI guidelines specify that UML classes are mapped with YANG groupings (as a first step).
- Karthik underlines that the object instance identifier is implementation dependent.
- Agreement that essentially everything is a data structure (better avoid datatype term), some structures can be independently addressed, other data structures can be addressed only indirectly, through other data structures.
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