[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/14] qdict: Add qdict_change_key()

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

This is a shorthand function for changing a QDict's entry's key.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
 include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h |  1 +
 qobject/qdict.c          | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
index 8a3ac13..3e0d7df 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ size_t qdict_size(const QDict *qdict);
 void qdict_put_obj(QDict *qdict, const char *key, QObject *value);
 void qdict_del(QDict *qdict, const char *key);
 int qdict_haskey(const QDict *qdict, const char *key);
+bool qdict_change_key(QDict *qdict, const char *old_key, const char *new_key);
 QObject *qdict_get(const QDict *qdict, const char *key);
 QDict *qobject_to_qdict(const QObject *obj);
 void qdict_iter(const QDict *qdict,
diff --git a/qobject/qdict.c b/qobject/qdict.c
index ae6ad06..2eacb3d 100644
--- a/qobject/qdict.c
+++ b/qobject/qdict.c
@@ -170,6 +170,29 @@ int qdict_haskey(const QDict *qdict, const char *key)
 }
 
 /**
+ * qdict_change_key(): Changes an entry's key
+ *
+ * Removes the entry with the key 'old_key' and inserts its associated value as
+ * a new entry with the key 'new_key'.
+ *
+ * Returns false if 'old_key' does not exist, true otherwise.
+ */
+bool qdict_change_key(QDict *qdict, const char *old_key, const char *new_key)
+{
+    QObject *value = qdict_get(qdict, old_key);
+
+    if (!value) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    qobject_incref(value);
+    qdict_del(qdict, old_key);
+    qdict_put_obj(qdict, new_key, value);
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+/**
  * qdict_size(): Return the size of the dictionary
  */
 size_t qdict_size(const QDict *qdict)
-- 
2.8.0