https://jira.opendaylight.org This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 8.20.10 820010 22-06-2022 https://jira.opendaylight.org/browse/YANGTOOLS-173 yangtools <p>One of the comments on usability of MD-SAL is that classes with the same name make it really difficult to use and interact with MD-SAL. </p> <p>On that front, we would like to rename the InstanceIdentifier class name, for which there are two classes (a binding aware and binding independent version).</p> <p>org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.InstanceIdentifier to org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.api.BIInstanceIdentifier</p> <p>and </p> <p>org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.InstanceIdentifier to<br/> org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding.BAInstanceIdentifier</p> <p>By renaming these classes we can make it clearer if we are using the BI or BA version, and it will also allow them to coexist in the same class with out having to fully qualify the class names.</p> <p>Operating System: Mac OS<br/> Platform: PC</p> YANGTOOLS-173

Usability: Rename the yang.data.api.InstanceIdentifier to yang.data.api.YangInstanceIdentifier

Improvement Resolved Done Robert Varga Devin Avery Wed, 28 May 2014 13:33:49 +0000 Sun, 10 Apr 2022 18:35:06 +0000 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:24:09 +0000 0 4 <p>This changes a lot of APIs, this needs to be taken care of carefully.</p> <p>Tony - what if we derive two new classes from each with the below suggested names, and @Deprecate the old ones. That way folks can start using the new syntax, but we don't have to change any API. </p> <p>After projects start to migrate we can do a final push to move all remaining code. </p> <p>This way it would be less of a "shock" to the system and should keep everything compiling even though the API changes.</p> <p>Additionally, this would allow instanceof calls etc to still work. So as long as we are not check explict class types anywhere we should be safe.</p> <p>Hi Devin, could you propose patch for this (leave existing,<br/> create subclasses with new names)</p> <p>I would suggest naming:<br/> BindingInstanceIdentifier - for yang-binding version<br/> DOMInstanceIdentifier - for yang-data-api version</p> <p>These names are more self-explaining as BI/BA versions.</p> <p><a href="https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/9427/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/9427/</a><br/> <a href="https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/9428/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/9428/</a></p> Development External issue ID 1092 External issue URL ODL SR Target Milestone Priority Rank 0|i025lb: