Re: [Qemu-devel] "Designing QMP APIs" at KVM Forum

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:51:22 +0200
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:

> With better QMP introspection on the horizon and work in various
> subsystems pushing QMP boundaries it would be useful to bring together
> the latest best practices for designing QMP APIs.
> 
> There are design rules for keeping QMP APIs extensible and for
> allowing clients to detect the presence of features.  There is also
> QEMU-side infrastructure like event rate-limiting, which developers
> should make use of where appropriate.
> 
> Is anyone willing to bring together the best practices and present
> them at KVM Forum this year?

I think this is a great idea and I vote for Eric to prepare a presentation.
Eric is doing an exceptional work on QMP command review, he is also
experienced on the client side.

> I think that could help set the standard for QMP APIs.  A set of
> slides or wiki page can be a reference to developers that stops us
> working from first pricinples every time a new API is added.

I was working on a doc to be added to docs/. It wouldn't be anything
fancy, but I ended up not finishing it.