Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 21/23] libqtest: Remove qtest_qmp_discard_response() & friends

[Thomas Huth]

On 07/27/2018 05:13 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> qtest_qmp_discard_response(...) is shorthand for
> qobject_unref(qtest_qmp(...), except it's not actually shorter.

But the latter is IMHO harder to read.
And it might be shorter in the compiled binary (one function call vs. two).

> Moreover, the presence of these functions encourage sloppy testing.

Shouldn't we then rather fix the tests to check for valid responses
instead of replacing this function with harder-to-read code?

 Thomas