Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QMP: Spec: Private Extensions support

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:54:04 -0600
Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 02/18/2010 02:24 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > Vendors might want to add their own extensions to QMP, as JSON itself
> > (and several other protocols) allow this someway, I think QMP should
> > allow too.
> >
> > We just have to choose a naming convention that is guaranteed not to
> > clash with any future new commands, arguments, parameters and event
> > names.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino<address@hidden>
> > ---
> >   QMP/qmp-spec.txt |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/QMP/qmp-spec.txt b/QMP/qmp-spec.txt
> > index f3c0327..bc92c7e 100644
> > --- a/QMP/qmp-spec.txt
> > +++ b/QMP/qmp-spec.txt
> > @@ -215,3 +215,26 @@ Additionally, Clients must not assume any particular:
> >   - Order of json-object members or json-array elements
> >   - Amount of errors generated by a command, that is, new errors can be 
> > added
> >     to any existing command in newer versions of the Server
> > +
> > +6 Private Extensions
> > +--------------------
> > +
> > +QMP provides a special naming convention to allow the creation of 
> > independent
> > +namespaces, which allows vendors to introduce private extensions to the
> > +protocol. It is guaranteed that no future QMP version will expose any name
> > +that follows this convention.
> > +
> > +Private extensions must be in the following format:
> > +
> > +v_NAMESPACE__NAME
> > +
> > + Where,
> > +
> > +- NAME is any argument, command, event or parameter name
> > +- NAMESPACE is the namespace that NAME belongs to
> > +
> > +For example, the following command:
> > +
> > +v_ABC__insert
> > +
> > +Is called 'insert' and is part of the 'ABC' namespace.
> >    
> 
> We need a bit more than just this.  Here's my suggestion:

 I like it very much, feel free to apply.