[Nsi-wg] Adding service definition elements to NML

John MacAuley john.macauley at surfnet.nl
Tue Oct 29 10:38:55 EDT 2013


Are you asking how I parse the existing NML into the NSI model?

On 2013-10-29, at 10:32 AM, Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, John MacAuley wrote:
> 
>> Well, the only other alternative I can see is expanding the NML specification to add an XML ANY to be added to PortGroupType and probably BidirectionalPortType at the same time.
> 
> There are no really good options here. Convulated solution or a new base schema :-|.
> 
>> I have no issue with the multiple parsing at the moment as i am already doing it so I can create a completely separate NSI topology model using Network, STP, SDP, and the new TransferFunction.
> 
> Out of curiosity: I had to rewrite a large portion of the OpenNSA topology code to handle NML, as the flat model of NML is significantly different from the hierarchical model we had previously (wrapping the other way would be easy though). How do you map/wrap that?
> 
> 
>    Best regards, Henrik
> 
> Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net>
> Software Developer, NORDUnet
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