Re: Esoteric QMP specification questions of dubious importance

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 01:10:46PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm writing a "fake" QMP server for the purposes of creating unit tests for
> > the python QMP library. In doing so, I am left with some esoteric questions:
> >
> >
> > (1) qemu-spec.txt, section 2.4.2, "error":
> >
> > The format of an "error response" is:
> >
> >> { "error": { "class": json-string, "desc": json-string }, "id": json-value }
> >
> > For the purposes of naming internal types in the QMP library, does the
> > "error" object value have a canonical type name? It's not defined in QAPI
> > that I can see.
> 
> No, it isn't.  It's built manually from an Error object in
> qmp_error_response():
> 
>     rsp = qdict_from_jsonf_nofail("{ 'error': { 'class': %s, 'desc': %s } }",
>                                   QapiErrorClass_str(error_get_class(err)),
>                                   error_get_pretty(err));

If we _need_ it to appear in the QAPI, it should certainly be
possible.  So far, no one has presented a need, but your unit tester
may be the reason to codify it.

> 
> > Weird questions, I know.
> 
> There are no weird questions, only weird people ;-P

Hey, I resemble that remark ;)

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