Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] qapi: add support for lists of native types

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 05/09/13 01:33, Michael Roth wrote:
> These patches apply on top of qemu.git master, and can also be obtained from:
> git://github.com/mdroth/qemu.git qapi-native-lists
> 
> Sending this now since a number of series have popped up in the past that
> wanted this, and Amos has some pending patches (query-mac-tables) that rely
> on this as well.
> 
> These patches add support for specifying lists of native qapi types
> (int/bool/str/number) like so:
> 
>   { 'type': 'foo',
>     'data': { 'bar': ['int'] }}
> 
> for a 'bar' field that is a list of type 'int',
> 
>   { 'type': 'foo2',
>     'data': { 'bar2': ['str'] }}
> 
> for a 'bar2' field that is a list of type 'str', and so on.
> 
> This uses linked list types for the native C representations, just as we do
> for complex schema-defined types. In the future we may add schema annotations
> of some sort to specify a more natural/efficient array type for the C
> representations, but this should serve the majority of uses-cases for now.
> 
>  Makefile                           |    6 +-
>  qapi-schema-test.json              |    8 ++
>  scripts/qapi-types.py              |   44 ++++++-
>  scripts/qapi-visit.py              |   36 ++++-
>  scripts/qapi.py                    |   21 +++
>  tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c     |  181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/test-qmp-output-visitor.c    |  172 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/test-visitor-serialization.c |  256 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  8 files changed, 692 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> 
> 

Two notes:
- the remark I made for 6/8 (comparing empty strings),

- for 7/8 and 8/8: the format specification %3.4f is not very useful.
"3" is the field width, "4" is the precision, and the latter means for
%f the number of digits printed after the radix character. It's not
useful to specify a smaller field width (which covers the entire output
string) than precision here.

Other than these nothing pokes me in the eye.

Laszlo