Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v3 30/32] qapi: New QMP command query-schema for QMP schema introspection

[Eric Blake]

On 09/03/2015 03:26 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>
>> I think we need to be careful that these descriptions are not
>> interpreted by clients as an alternative to the more-specific
>> constraints in the QAPI schema though. 'query-schema' seems
>> a bit misleading in that regard, it appears to be more like
>> 'query-schema-encoding' in function. But not sure it's worth
>> renaming or anything so long as the documentation is clear.
> 
> You have a point: "schema" can mean two related, yet different things.
> There's the QAPI schema, and there's the QMP (the wire protocol) schema.
> QMP introspection is about the latter, not the former.
> 
> If we want to avoid the ambiguity, we could call the command
> query-qmp-schema or something.
> 
> Renaming query-schema now might confuse people coming from my KVM Forum
> talk slightly, but if we can agree on a better name, let's do it.

I'm okay if you want to use 'query-qmp-schema'; it's a bit longer, but
more precise, and doesn't cause too much grief to change the name at
this point in the game.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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