Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/10] qom: Introduce ObjectPropertyIterator struct for iteration

[Markus Armbruster]

"Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:20:22AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Andreas Färber <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden>
>> >
>> > Some users of QOM need to be able to iterate over properties
>> > defined against an object instance. Currently they are just
>> > directly using the QTAIL macros against the object properties
>> > data structure.
>> >
>> > This is bad because it exposes them to changes in the data
>> > structure used to store properties, as well as changes in
>> > functionality such as ability to register properties against
>> > the class.
>> >
>> > This provides an ObjectPropertyIterator struct which will
>> > insulate the callers from the particular data structure
>> > used to store properties. It can be used thus
>> >
>> >   ObjectProperty *prop;
>> >   ObjectPropertyIterator *iter;
>> >
>> >   iter = object_property_iter_init(obj);
>> >   while ((prop = object_property_iter_next(iter))) {
>> >       ... do something with prop ...
>> >   }
>> >   object_property_iter_free(iter);
>> 
>> I see my review hasn't been addressed, probably because it came late.
>> Would you accept a follow-up patch to bring the iterator into line with
>> existing ones?
>
> I'll write such a patch if you like, but i guess waiting for it to merge
> till 2.6 is no big deal ?

Not even a little deal :)