Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/19] monitor: Convert do_info_name() to QObject

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/10/2009 06:20 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> By the same token, wouldn't you probably do:
>
> name = hpet_info.get('name', None)
>

For name, yes.  For an optional feature where you're interested in 
knowing both its existence and its value (if it exists), no.

> Let me put it another way, I don't think adding null to the json 
> parser and incorporating it into this command is a good idea at this 
> stage in the release so if we want to do something like this, we need 
> to defer it to 0.13.
>
> I agree there are some instances where null could be useful.  I think 
> we can get away without it here though.

For 'name', definitely, since it's known to exist.  It would be nice to 
have consistency in how features are presented, though.

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