Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 04/21] qapi: extend qdict_flatten() for QLists

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On 2013年12月12日 02:10, Max Reitz wrote:
> Reversing qdict_array_split(), qdict_flatten() should flatten QLists as
> well by interpreting them as QDicts where every entry's key is its
> index.
>
> This allows bringing QDicts with QLists from QMP commands to the same
> form as they would be given as command-line options, thereby allowing
> them to be parsed the same way.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
>   qobject/qdict.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qobject/qdict.c b/qobject/qdict.c
> index fca1902..d7ce4b3 100644
> --- a/qobject/qdict.c
> +++ b/qobject/qdict.c
> @@ -477,7 +477,40 @@ static void qdict_destroy_obj(QObject *obj)
>       g_free(qdict);
>   }
>
> -static void qdict_do_flatten(QDict *qdict, QDict *target, const char *prefix)
> +static void qdict_flatten_qdict(QDict *qdict, QDict *target,
> +                                const char *prefix);
> +
> +static void qdict_flatten_qlist(QList *qlist, QDict *target, const char *prefix)
> +{
> +    QObject *value;
> +    const QListEntry *entry;
> +    char *new_key;
> +    int i;
> +
> +    /* This function is never called with prefix == NULL, i.e., it is always
> +     * called from within qdict_flatten_q(list|dict)(). Therefore, it does not
> +     * need to remove list entries during the iteration (the whole list will be
> +     * deleted eventually anyway from qdict_flatten_qdict()). Also, prefix can
> +     * never be NULL. */
> +
> +    entry = qlist_first(qlist);
> +
> +    for (i = 0; entry; entry = qlist_next(entry), i++) {
> +        value = qlist_entry_obj(entry);
> +
> +        qobject_incref(value);
> +        new_key = g_strdup_printf("%s.%i", prefix, i);
> +        qdict_put_obj(target, new_key, value);
> +
> +        if (qobject_type(value) == QTYPE_QDICT) {
> +            qdict_flatten_qdict(qobject_to_qdict(value), target, new_key);
> +        } else {
> +            qdict_flatten_qlist(qobject_to_qlist(value), target, new_key);
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +static void qdict_flatten_qdict(QDict *qdict, QDict *target, const char *prefix)

Sorry for replying twice on the same patch. But it would be nice if you 
could add a few comments on this function with some examples, as you did 
with qdict_array_split, I appreciated that. :)

Fam