From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, akong@redhat.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 19/19] qapi: New QMP command query-schema for QMP schema introspection
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 06:56:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <552E6016.1000309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w51r3rl21kl.fsf@maestria.local.igalia.com>
On 04/15/2015 03:16 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Sat 11 Apr 2015 01:06:58 AM CEST, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>> +{ 'type': 'SchemaInfoEnum',
>>> + 'data': { 'values': ['str'] } }
>>
>> At one point, one thread suggested that we might want to allow QAPI to
>> support enums with fixed values, as in:
>>
>> 'data': [ {'one': 1}, {'three': 3} ]
>
> Out of curiosity, what's the use case for that?
If we add that extension, it will allow the creation of C enums with
specific values, rather than defaulting to consecutive initialization
from 0.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-15 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-02 17:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/19] qapi: QMP introspection Markus Armbruster
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 01/19] tests: Add missing dependencies on $(qapi-py) Markus Armbruster
2015-04-02 19:40 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 02/19] qapi: Fix C identifiers generated for names containing '.' Markus Armbruster
2015-04-02 21:48 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-29 7:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-04-06 23:25 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-11 18:36 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 03/19] qapi: Rename _generate_enum_string() to camel_to_upper() Markus Armbruster
2015-04-10 22:17 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 04/19] qapi: Rename generate_enum_full_value() to c_enum_const() Markus Armbruster
2015-04-11 18:37 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 05/19] qapi: Simplify c_enum_const() Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 14:40 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 06/19] qapi: Use c_enum_const() in generate_alternate_qtypes() Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 19:03 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 07/19] qapi: Move camel_to_upper(), c_enum_const() to closely related code Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 19:06 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/19] qapi: qapi-event.py option -b does nothing, drop it Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 19:07 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 09/19] qapi: qapi-commands.py option --type is unused, " Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 19:12 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 10/19] qapi: Factor parse_command_line() out of the generators Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 19:14 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 11/19] qapi: Fix generators to report command line errors decently Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 19:15 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 12/19] qapi: Turn generators' mandatory option -i into an argument Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 19:17 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-29 7:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 13/19] qapi: Factor open_output(), close_output() out of generators Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 19:44 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 14/19] qapi: Drop pointless flush() before close() Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 20:29 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 15/19] qapi: Inline gen_command_decl_prologue(), gen_command_def_prologue() Markus Armbruster
2015-04-13 20:34 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 16/19] qobject: Clean up around qtype_code Markus Armbruster
2015-04-14 3:32 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 17/19] qobject: Add a special null QObject Markus Armbruster
2015-04-14 3:44 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-29 7:15 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-04-02 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 18/19] json-parser: Fix to recognize null Markus Armbruster
2015-04-14 3:45 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-02 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 19/19] qapi: New QMP command query-schema for QMP schema introspection Markus Armbruster
2015-04-10 23:06 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-15 9:16 ` Alberto Garcia
2015-04-15 12:56 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2015-04-23 12:55 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-04-23 19:29 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-29 8:46 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-04-23 13:13 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-04-29 9:02 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-05-01 21:41 ` Eric Blake
2015-05-04 7:17 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-04-02 19:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/19] qapi: QMP introspection Eric Blake
2015-04-06 23:20 ` Eric Blake
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