Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v1 5/6] qapi: generate a qapi_stringify_TYPENAME method for all types

[Eric Blake]

On 06/07/2016 04:11 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> There are sometimes cases where one might wish to have a
> pretty string representation of a QAPI type. For example,
> the 'qemu-img info' tool wants to print out ImageInfoSpecific
> type in a humand friendly format. Also when debugging problems
> in code it is often useful to insert code to print out a QAPI
> object.
> 
> To address this, add a qapi_stringify_TYPENAME() method for
> all types which wraps around the TextOutputVisitor to turn
> objects into pretty strings.

It might be nicer to copy the approach I used for the clone visitor,
with a QAPI_CLONE() macro that forwards to a special-case helper
(including necessary type-punning), rather than making a much larger .h
with lots of declarations that aren't actually used.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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