[PATCH v3 02/13] plugins/api: added a boolean parsing plugin api

[Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>]

This call will help boolean argument parsing since arguments are now
passed to plugins as a name and value.

Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
---
 include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 plugins/api.c              |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h b/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
index dc3496f36c..7d0b23c659 100644
--- a/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
+++ b/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
@@ -564,4 +564,17 @@ int qemu_plugin_n_max_vcpus(void);
  */
 void qemu_plugin_outs(const char *string);
 
+/**
+ * qemu_plugin_bool_parse() - parses a boolean argument in the form of
+ * "<argname>=[on|yes|true|off|no|false]"
+ *
+ * @name: argument name, the part before the equals sign
+ * @val: argument value, what's after the equals sign
+ * @ret: output return value
+ *
+ * returns true if the combination @name=@val parses correctly to a boolean
+ * argument, and false otherwise
+ */
+bool qemu_plugin_bool_parse(const char *name, const char *val, bool *ret);
+
 #endif /* QEMU_PLUGIN_API_H */
diff --git a/plugins/api.c b/plugins/api.c
index 332e2c60e2..404a1b6120 100644
--- a/plugins/api.c
+++ b/plugins/api.c
@@ -383,3 +383,8 @@ void qemu_plugin_outs(const char *string)
 {
     qemu_log_mask(CPU_LOG_PLUGIN, "%s", string);
 }
+
+bool qemu_plugin_bool_parse(const char *name, const char *value, bool *ret)
+{
+    return name && value && qapi_bool_parse(name, value, ret, NULL);
+}
-- 
2.25.1