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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Add QBuffer
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 11:55 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> The names of fields are also type information.
>>>      
>> Not in the case of device_show. The clients have no idea of the vmstate
>> structures before they were transfered. Granted, that will likely remain
>> a special case in the QMP command set.
>>    
> 
> For that use case, I agree.  Maybe we should send both the parsed and 
> unparsed information.

Now I can't parse what you mean.

> 
> But if the client isn't going to interpret the object and only display 
> it, then there is no need for __class__?

For that uncommon case, yes. But the common one is to perform a bit more
than raw JSON dictionary printing.

Jan

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