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Il 07/06/2012 17:29, Michael Roth ha scritto:
> For QEMU <-> X serialization/deserialization, such as a visitor which
> implements a wire encoding (QMP being the only example currently), we need to
> take care that the wire encoding is compatible with the representation
> expected by the other end (according to the QAPI schema or whatever other
> means we use to document it). This holds for QMP/JSON, and we'll need to take
> care that it holds for anything that's added in the future.

Actually the string visitor does indeed need an uint64 visitor exactly
for this reason.  Will be done before 1.2. :)

Laszlo's option visitor needs the same, but it's not in the tree.

Paolo