[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Add QBuffer

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Instead of encoding just as a string, it would be a good idea to encode 
>> it as something like:
>>
>> {'__class__': 'base64', 'data': ...}
> 
> Is there a benefit to the class indirection, over simply a keyword?:
> 
> {'__base64__': ...}
> 
> __class__ seems to suggest much more than it's being used for here.
> 

Depending on how sophisticated your parser is, you could directly push
the result into an object of the proper type. And we can add more
complex objects in the future that do not only consists of a single data
key. Note that this extension is not just about encoding, it is about
typecasting (dict -> custom type).

Jan


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