Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] full introspection support for QMP

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Il 02/07/2013 20:21, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>> >
>>> > Indeed, I wouldn't mind a one-time pass over qapi-schema.json to make it
>>> > follow a more rigid format if that made it easier to use it as-is with
>>> > less post-processing.  It won't be very nice to backport such a
>>> > conversion, but I don't know how much distros are planning on
>>> > backporting introspection in the first place.
>> We consume the schema in QEMU.  No reason for us to consume it in a
>> different format than libvirt.
>
> One reason could be that qapi-schema.json, as written, lacks a schema
> that can be expressed itself using QAPI.

Yup, but how much does that matter in practice?

At any rate, if we wanted to solve this problem--a self-describing
schema--we should do it in qapi-schema.json too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo