Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/29] monitor: Setup a QDict with arguments to handlers

[Markus Armbruster]

Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> writes:

> With this commit monitor_handle_command() will be able to setup a
> QDict with arguments to command handlers.
>
> However, the current 'args[]' method is still being used, next
> changes will port commands to get their arguments from the dictionary.
>
> Two changes are worth noting:
>
> 1. The '/' argument type always adds the following standard keys in the
> dictionary: 'count', 'format' and 'size'. This way, the argument
> name used in the 'args_type' string doesn't matter

Can have at most one '/' argument then.  Hmm.  Document as restriction?

> 2. The optional argument type '?' doesn't need to pass the additional
> 'has_arg' argument, hanlders can do the same check with qdict_exists()