Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] add json encoder for qobjects

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/17/2009 03:03 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> I think it makes more sense as an external entity.
>
> Maybe... I just thought of it as a toString method that happens to 
> emit JSON.

json is one representation of the monitor protocol.  I think we should 
attempt to design things so that there is a clear separate of 
representation from the implementation.

BTW, the next thing I'd like to do this weekend is write a QObject 
decoded based on the json parser.  So that you can do something like:

  int locked, readonly;
  char *file;

  err = qobject_unmarshal(obj, "{'locked': %i, 'file': %s, 'readonly': 
%i}", &locked, &file, &readonly);

I think this would tremendously simplify the monitor command 
implementations.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori