Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC 0/7] QError v1

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:28:49PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Okay, let's get more clever then and do:
> > 
> > #define QERR_DEV_NFOUND "{ 'code': 404, 'name': %s}"
> 
> By the way, since you've already invented a non-standard JSON
> extension, which is the single quotes, why not go a step further and
> permit the quotes to be omitted for simple tokens?

If we're going to use JSON we should be 100% compliant with the JSON
spec, not extend it. By adding custom QEMU extensions, we loose the
ability for programming language to trivially talk to QEMU using a
standard JSON parser, and instead everyone has to write custom client
side code yet again.

Daniel
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