Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qom: Rename object_new_with_props to object_new_child

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

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:58:07AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 08/17/2018 11:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 09:33:33AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> While adding the object_initialize_child() function, Paolo suggested
> >> to rename the similar object_new_with_props() function accordingly:
> >>
> >> http://marc.info/?i=e034610d-9a1d-a8a5-ee92-b2e3f0ba2891@redhat.com
> >>
> >> This way it is more obvious that this function creates a new object
> >> as a child of another object.
> > 
> > I'd expect 'object_new_with_child' to be the same as 'object_new',
> > but with only 'parent' & 'id' args added, which isn't the case here.
> > 
> > If we want the full & consistent design then we should have
> > 
> >   object_new(typename)
> >   object_new_with_child(typename, parent, id)
> >   object_new_props(typename, ...)
> >   object_new_propv(typename, va_arg props)
> >   object_new_with_child_props(typename, parent, id, ...)
> >   object_new_with_child_propv(typename, parent, id, va_arg props)
> 
> "new_with_child" sounds wrong, too, since the parent is not created
> here, but the child. Anyway, I guess the naming of these functions is
> too much subject to bikeshedding, so never mind, let's keep it as it
> currently is.

True, 'new_with_parent' is a better choice in retrospect :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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