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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: escaping the dots in c_var
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To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:51:10 -0500
Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 01:53:38PM +0000, Federico Simoncelli wrote:
> > This allows qapi commands and types with dots.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/qapi.py |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py
> > index 6e05469..4090c55 100644
> > --- a/scripts/qapi.py
> > +++ b/scripts/qapi.py
> > @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def camel_case(name):
> >      return new_name
> > 
> >  def c_var(name):
> > -    return '_'.join(name.split('-')).lstrip("*")
> > +    return name.replace('-', '_').replace('.', '_').lstrip('*')
> 
> What are you looking to use this for? The general rule so far has been to
> always use "-" as the word delimiter.

Downstream extensions of QMP (commands, events, etc) are fully qualified
domain names, and hence contain dots.