Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v11 5/6] qapi: add a QmpInputVisitor that does string conversion

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

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 05:23:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 06:21:32PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Currently the QmpInputVisitor assumes that all scalar
> > > values are directly represented as their final types.
> > > ie it assumes an 'int' is using QInt, and a 'bool' is
> > > using QBool.
> > >
> > > This adds an alternative constructor for QmpInputVisitor
> > > that will set it up such that it expects a QString for
> > > all scalar types instead.
> > >
> > > This makes it possible to use QmpInputVisitor with a
> > > QDict produced from QemuOpts, where everything is in
> > > string format.
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Ignorant question: is this used by the next patch?
> 
> Yes indeed :-)
> 
> We use the qdict_crumpl() method to turn the command line QemuOpts
> into a QDict, and then this new mode for QmpInputVisitor for the
> visiting this QDict, thus eliminating need to use OptsVisitor in
> QOM.

Oh and obviously my commit message needs fixing to say
QObjectInputVisitor not QmpInputVisitor now :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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