Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/15] QAPI Round 1 (core code generator) (v2)

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/18/2011 09:10 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>
> IMO, what's happening here is that you want (or your focus is in) a
> different thing.
>
> Since the beginning we (Markus and I) have focused on having a flexible
> wire interface. In its most part, this requirement came from Avi (please
> Avi, correct me if I'm wrong), but of course that I agreed with it.
>
> You've said many times that you don't value non-C consumers that much,
> while our focus until today has been on higher level clients.

I realize that I've not been careful enough in my language.  The 
problems I'm trying to address are just as applicable to non-C clients.  
In fact, I've written a Python client library that makes uses code 
generation:

http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori.git/commit/a101de2ff0781795f4f7c64ece6e3d48b5783627

It's much simpler than the C interfaces because Python has a bit more 
awesomeness than C.

The only properties of the Python interface that are different than the 
C is that adding optional parameters to a command handler works okay, 
but adding optional parameters to a signal still will not work.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori