Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/10] qom: Introduce ObjectPropertyIterator struct for iteration

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:20:22AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
> >
> > Some users of QOM need to be able to iterate over properties
> > defined against an object instance. Currently they are just
> > directly using the QTAIL macros against the object properties
> > data structure.
> >
> > This is bad because it exposes them to changes in the data
> > structure used to store properties, as well as changes in
> > functionality such as ability to register properties against
> > the class.
> >
> > This provides an ObjectPropertyIterator struct which will
> > insulate the callers from the particular data structure
> > used to store properties. It can be used thus
> >
> >   ObjectProperty *prop;
> >   ObjectPropertyIterator *iter;
> >
> >   iter = object_property_iter_init(obj);
> >   while ((prop = object_property_iter_next(iter))) {
> >       ... do something with prop ...
> >   }
> >   object_property_iter_free(iter);
> 
> I see my review hasn't been addressed, probably because it came late.
> Would you accept a follow-up patch to bring the iterator into line with
> existing ones?

I'll write such a patch if you like, but i guess waiting for it to merge
till 2.6 is no big deal ?

Regards,
Daniel
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