Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: escaping the dots in c_var

[Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:03:30PM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:51:10 -0500
> Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 01:53:38PM +0000, Federico Simoncelli wrote:
> > > This allows qapi commands and types with dots.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  scripts/qapi.py |    2 +-
> > >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py
> > > index 6e05469..4090c55 100644
> > > --- a/scripts/qapi.py
> > > +++ b/scripts/qapi.py
> > > @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def camel_case(name):
> > >      return new_name
> > > 
> > >  def c_var(name):
> > > -    return '_'.join(name.split('-')).lstrip("*")
> > > +    return name.replace('-', '_').replace('.', '_').lstrip('*')
> > 
> > What are you looking to use this for? The general rule so far has been to
> > always use "-" as the word delimiter.
> 
> Downstream extensions of QMP (commands, events, etc) are fully qualified
> domain names, and hence contain dots.
> 

Ahh, thanks. Patch looks good :)

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>