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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images? |
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Tue, 5 Jun 2018 23:28:55 +0300 |
On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 03:09:17PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/05/2018 02:58 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > Binary blobs can always be base64 encoded for representation within
> > > a valid JSON UTF-8 string (and we already have several QMP
> > > interfaces that utilize base64 encoding to pass through what is
> > > otherwise invalid UTF-8). It does inflate things slightly compared
> > > to a format that allows a raw length coupled with raw data, but that
> > > is not necessarily a problem.
> >
> > Of course how we represent them externally and/or while
> > using QMP / qemu-img to store and retrieve them is up for grabs.
> > Doesn't JSON allow binary to be encoded? (Knowing how poorly
> > done JSON is, I wouldn't be surprised if not)
>
> JSON itself does not have a binary primitive; to pass arbitrary data through
> JSON you have to first encode that data into something like base64 that can
> then be represented as a UTF-8 string. For reference, look at
> qapi/crypto.json and the definition of QCryptoSecretFormat.
But there isn't a way to figure out that a string is base64, which
means each application needs to know whether it's a string or
a binary.
How about specifying the encoding in the value?
string value:
[A-Za-z][^=\0]=S[^\0]*
base64 value:
[A-Za-z][^=\0]=B[A-Za-z0-9+/]*
or the key:
S[A-Za-z][^=\0]=[^\0]*
base64 value:
B[A-Za-z][^=\0]=[A-Za-z0-9+/]*
?
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2018/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?, Eric Blake, 2018/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?, Richard W.M. Jones, 2018/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?, Eric Blake, 2018/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?, Eric Blake, 2018/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2018/06/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2018/06/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] storing machine data in qcow images?, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/06/05
Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2018/06/06
Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2018/06/06
Re: [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?, Max Reitz, 2018/06/06