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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qapi] Cannot use list of strings
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, akong@redhat.com, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Llu=EDs_Vilanova?= <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>

Il 16/04/2013 10:49, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>> > Tried using a list of strings as an argument to a command, but the generated
>> > code references the 'strList' type, which does not exist.
>> > 
>> > Is a specialized version for "['str']" missing, or should I define my own type
>> > with a single field of 'str' type?
> akong just hit this too.
> 
> I think it's a question for aliguori, luiz, or mdroth.

Laszlo defined and used String for this purpose:

##
# @String
#
# A fat type wrapping 'str', to be embedded in lists.
#
# Since 1.2
##
{ 'type': 'String',
  'data': {
    'str': 'str' } }


Paolo