It's your custom code, do as you like.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:17:35PM +0300, Andrei Andone wrote:
> Yeah, I could use multiple `set_field` actions, but then the flow
> would be really long (and for now I only need to change around 7
> fields and the flow start being pretty hard to read).
> 
> Example:
> ovs-ofctl add-flow my_bridge "in_port=1 
> actions=set_field:value->field1,set_field:value->field2,set_field:value->field3,
> set_field:value->field4,set_field:value->field5,set_field:value->field6,set_field:value->field7,output:2"
> 
> To me it seems a bit hard to read and understand. Right now I have
> my action and the flow changes to:
> ovs-ofctl add-flow my_bridge "in_port=1
> actions=my_action:value:value:...,output:2"
> 
> On 09/25/2013 06:10 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:31:13AM +0300, Andrei Andone wrote:
> >>What do you guys usually use or recommend regarding new complex
> >>actions (complex as in it modifies more fields), is it better to
> >>define the action similarly to the nicira extended actions or should
> >>I just create an action for each field that needs to be modified?
> >If you follow the pattern already in the tree, you don't need to create
> >new actions to modify the fields that you add: you can use
> >NXAST_REG_LOAD or OFPAT12_SET_FIELD.
> >
> 
> 
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