Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/25] Monitor handlers new structure phase 1

[Anthony Liguori]

Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>  Hi there,
>
>  In the long QEMU Monitor Protocol (QMP) thread people have agreed that,
> whichever protocol we are going to use, the first step that needs to be
> done is to improve current Monitor's code, so that command handlers
> support 'structured' input and output.
>   

I think one of the goals was for there to be type safety.  qdicts store 
void *s which is pretty clumsy.

I think you may be waiting to introduce QObject, but in the interim, you 
should at least introduce a boxed type and have proper accessors in 
qdict.  For instance, instead of:

int f = (long)qdict_get(foo, "bar");

It should be:

int f = qdict_get_int(foo, "bar");

Regards,

Anthony Liguori