Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC 0/7] QError v1

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/30/2009 06:15 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> If we're going to use JSON we should be 100% compliant with the JSON
>> spec, not extend it. By adding custom QEMU extensions, we loose the
>> ability for programming language to trivially talk to QEMU using a
>> standard JSON parser, and instead everyone has to write custom client
>> side code yet again.
>
> The single-quoted-string extension is just to be used internally to 
> ease writing JSON templates in C.  All emitted text will go through 
> the JSON encoder, which will be conservative (no extensions) for the 
> reasons you mention.

Correct.  Furthermore, even our internal extensions should be as minimal 
as possible.  The only reason for allowing single quoted strings is that 
"{"\"key\": 32}" gets out of hand quickly.  It's not so bad in other 
languages that support single quoted strings but for C, it's really a 
necessary extension.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori