Provision for including Extension information in Capability Response

[amanand]

Hi,
The CapabilityResponse currently has the extension field but i think it is for exporting additional message through extensions. However can we have another field in the Capability response to include the extension information, i.e the extension ID (name and value) and the Extension message name?
If not, then what is the best way to publish the extension IDs to avoid conflict in multi vendor scenarios?

Thanks
Amish

[robshakir]

Hi!

Extensions should only use IDs that are currently assigned -- right now, this is just 999 (EXPERIMENTAL) for which no inter-op is expected. If you need an extension ID, per the discussion in https://github.com/openconfig/reference/blob/master/rpc/gnmi/gnmi-extensions.md - please send a PR to this repo with the next ID and a link to the specification for how this extension is used.

We specifically chose this approach (registered extension IDs) vs. proto.Any to maximise the opportunity for interoperability within the protocol.

Thanks,
r.

[amanand]

Hi Rob,
Thanks for you reply. I have created the following pull request for adding Juniper's extension ID:
#76

Thanks
Amish