Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH V2 5/8] block/qcow2: read and write the compress format extension

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:18:13PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
> 
> Okay, so it has to be a mix of QAPI parsing and manual parameter checking,
> right?

Yeah. It does feel like a valid RFE for QAPI to add a permitted range to
'int' types though, which would simplify the code in future.

> I currently have the following:
> 
>     options = qemu_opts_to_qdict(opts, NULL);
>     qdict_extract_subqdict(options, &compressopts, "compress.");
>     v = qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval(QOBJECT(compressopts));
>     visit_start_struct(v, NULL, NULL, 0, &local_err);
>     if (local_err) {
>         ret= -EINVAL;
>         goto finish;
>     }
>     visit_type_Qcow2Compress_members(v, &compress, &local_err);
>     if (local_err) {
>         ret= -EINVAL;
>         goto finish;
>     }
>     visit_end_struct(v, NULL);
>     visit_free(v);
>     QDECREF(compressopts);
>     QDECREF(options)

Looks good.

> And I have the following 2 questions:
>  a) I have to specifiy compress.format and compress.level otherwise I will 
> get an error. How can I fix that the settings are optional?

Put an '*' as the first character of any field name if it should be optional.

>  b) If I just specify a compress.format can I default the compress.level to 0 
> without an error?

I believe you'd get compress.level as 0 automatically for an 'int' type.

Regards,
Daniel
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