Regex Assertions in YANG pattern?

YANG
1

I am adding a regular expression that uses assertions (look ahead) in the pattern field for an entity. However, when I try to compile the file, I get a bad pattern error.

I could not find details on whether assertions are allowed in YANG model or not. below is an example -

…
type string{

pattern: '(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])';

}
…

2

Correct. RFC 6020 YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) state that the regular expressions supported by YANG is specified in XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition.

In Appendix F in the linked document you can read about the features supported by the YANG regex engine, assertions including lookahead and loosbehind is not supported.