Re: type-without-format

[Frank Strauß <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

On 30.05.2005, at 17:12, Romascanu, Dan ((Dan)) wrote:

> Can somebody explain the following warning:
> sip-mib-09.txt:120: [5] {type-without-format} warning: type  
> `SipMethodIdentifier' has no format specification
>
> received when running smilint on the attached MIB modules: [...]

The concerned TEXTUAL-CONVENTION clause does not contain a DISPLAY- 
HINT. In cases where the underlying base type would allow to render  
values in different ways this could lead to misunderstandings, e.g.  
octal vs. decimal representation. It could be a good idea to  
explicitly specify that values of this type should be rendered as  
decimal values by adding a DISPLAY-HINT "d" (or any other appropriate  
display hint).

BTW, libsmi uses terms like "type" and "format" instead of TEXTUAL- 
CONVENTION and DISPLAY-HINT because its core is not bound to SMI, so  
we chose more general terms (e.g. from most programming languages),  
though less common if you are focused on SMI MIBs.