YANG tools
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Project documentation
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### Description

YANG Tools is a infrastructure project aiming to develop necessary tooling and libraries providing support of NETCONF and YANG for Java (JVM-language based) projects and applications, such as Model Driven SAL for Controller (which uses YANG as it's modeling language) and Netconf / OFConfig plugins. 

### Scope

The scope of YANG Tools includes:

* Parser of YANG files
* Java meta-model for YANG
* Java binding for YANG
* Maven plugin for processing YANG files
* Infrastructure for code generators based on YANG
* Validation of instance data (XML) based on YANG to RelaxNG mapping - RFC6110
* Proof-of-concept, research and support for new YANG extensions, which are meant to be reused by other projects.
* IDE related tools to assist in writing, using and developing YANG models
* Libraries and supporting functionality for YANG API (REST APIs defined by the YANG model).