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Allow comments in device type import model #4245

Closed jmanteau closed 4 years ago

jmanteau commented 4 years ago

Environment

Proposed Functionality

Currently device type import does not propose comments to the import. (Original PR #451). This feature request is to propose adding the support of comments to the device type import model.

Use Case

This would allow to add information regarding a model such as:

This could be interesting when coupled with https://github.com/netbox-community/devicetype-library

Database Changes

None

External Dependencies

None

jeremystretch commented 4 years ago

This was considered and declined during implementation of the import function. Comments are not included because they are not part of the real-world device definition.