List and leaffrefs

YANG
1

how to define a list that has one leaf and this leaf is of leafref type to one of two
different leafs. Apparantly union is not supported with leafrefs. any other suggestions ?

2

A leafref can only point to a single leaf or leaf-list node as described in the YANG RFC:

The “path” statement, which is a substatement to the “type” statement, MUST be present if the type is “leafref”. It takes as an argument a string that MUST refer to a leaf or leaf-list node.

3

Hi Waitai,

at a time leaf will be pointing to either element in fruits list or flowers list.
union on leafref is not possible. is there any other way i can achieve this.
I want to create a list ‘fruitsORflowers’ each element in this list will be
pointing to a leaf either in list ‘flowers’ or ‘fruits’. since union on leaferefs
is not allowed. is there a way i can remodel my yang to achieve this.

list fruits {
key “name”;
leaf name {
type string;
}
}

list flowers {
key “name”;
leaf name {
type string;
}
}

list fruitsORflowers {
key “name”;
leaf name {
type union {
type leafref {
path “…/…/flowers/name”;
}
type leafref {
path “…/…/fruits/name”;
}
}
}
}

4

Not sure if this is possible.
Use of a choice helps, but it will be either Fruits or Flowers and separate type of it ?

            choice myChoice {
                description "Fruit or Flowers";
                case fruit {
                   leaf fruit-name {
                     description "Fruit name";
                     type leafref {
                      path "../../fruits/name";
                     }
                  }
                }
                case flower {
                   leaf flower-name {
                     description "Flower name";·
                     type leafref {
                      path "../../flowers/name";
                     }
                  }
              }
            }