[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/10] qdict: Add qdict_join()

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

This function joins two QDicts by absorbing one into the other.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
 include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h |  3 +++
 qobject/qdict.c          | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
index 1ddf97b..d68f4eb 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "qapi/qmp/qobject.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qlist.h"
 #include "qemu/queue.h"
+#include <stdbool.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 
 #define QDICT_BUCKET_MAX 512
@@ -70,4 +71,6 @@ void qdict_flatten(QDict *qdict);
 void qdict_extract_subqdict(QDict *src, QDict **dst, const char *start);
 void qdict_array_split(QDict *src, QList **dst);
 
+void qdict_join(QDict *dest, QDict *src, bool overwrite);
+
 #endif /* QDICT_H */
diff --git a/qobject/qdict.c b/qobject/qdict.c
index 42ec4c0..ea239f0 100644
--- a/qobject/qdict.c
+++ b/qobject/qdict.c
@@ -665,3 +665,35 @@ void qdict_array_split(QDict *src, QList **dst)
         qlist_append_obj(*dst, subqobj ?: QOBJECT(subqdict));
     }
 }
+
+/**
+ * qdict_join(): Absorb the src QDict into the dest QDict, that is, move all
+ * elements from src to dest.
+ *
+ * If an element from src has a key already present in dest, it will not be
+ * moved unless overwrite is true.
+ *
+ * If overwrite is true, the conflicting values in dest will be discarded and
+ * replaced by the corresponding values from src.
+ *
+ * Therefore, with overwrite being true, the src QDict will always be empty when
+ * this function returns. If overwrite is false, the src QDict will be empty
+ * iff there were no conflicts.
+ */
+void qdict_join(QDict *dest, QDict *src, bool overwrite)
+{
+    const QDictEntry *entry, *next;
+
+    entry = qdict_first(src);
+    while (entry) {
+        next = qdict_next(src, entry);
+
+        if (overwrite || !qdict_haskey(dest, entry->key)) {
+            qobject_incref(entry->value);
+            qdict_put_obj(dest, entry->key, entry->value);
+            qdict_del(src, entry->key);
+        }
+
+        entry = next;
+    }
+}
-- 
1.9.0