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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 5/6] qapi: generate a qapi_stringify_TYPENAME
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 5/6] qapi: generate a qapi_stringify_TYPENAME method for all types |
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Tue, 7 Jun 2016 10:23:45 -0600 |
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On 06/07/2016 04:11 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> There are sometimes cases where one might wish to have a
> pretty string representation of a QAPI type. For example,
> the 'qemu-img info' tool wants to print out ImageInfoSpecific
> type in a humand friendly format. Also when debugging problems
> in code it is often useful to insert code to print out a QAPI
> object.
>
> To address this, add a qapi_stringify_TYPENAME() method for
> all types which wraps around the TextOutputVisitor to turn
> objects into pretty strings.
It might be nicer to copy the approach I used for the clone visitor,
with a QAPI_CLONE() macro that forwards to a special-case helper
(including necessary type-punning), rather than making a much larger .h
with lots of declarations that aren't actually used.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 5/6] qapi: generate a qapi_stringify_TYPENAME method for all types, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/06/07
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 6/6] block: convert to use qapi_stringify_ImageInfoSpecific, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/06/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/6] Report format specific info for LUKS block driver, Eric Blake, 2016/06/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/6] Report format specific info for LUKS block driver, Max Reitz, 2016/06/14