[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QMP: Spec: Private Extensions support

[Luiz Capitulino]

Vendors might want to add their own extensions to QMP, as JSON itself
(and several other protocols) allow this someway, I think QMP should
allow too.

We just have to choose a naming convention that is guaranteed not to
clash with any future new commands, arguments, parameters and event
names.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
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 QMP/qmp-spec.txt |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/QMP/qmp-spec.txt b/QMP/qmp-spec.txt
index f3c0327..bc92c7e 100644
--- a/QMP/qmp-spec.txt
+++ b/QMP/qmp-spec.txt
@@ -215,3 +215,26 @@ Additionally, Clients must not assume any particular:
 - Order of json-object members or json-array elements
 - Amount of errors generated by a command, that is, new errors can be added
   to any existing command in newer versions of the Server
+
+6 Private Extensions 
+--------------------
+
+QMP provides a special naming convention to allow the creation of independent
+namespaces, which allows vendors to introduce private extensions to the
+protocol. It is guaranteed that no future QMP version will expose any name
+that follows this convention.
+
+Private extensions must be in the following format:
+
+v_NAMESPACE__NAME
+
+ Where,
+
+- NAME is any argument, command, event or parameter name
+- NAMESPACE is the namespace that NAME belongs to
+
+For example, the following command:
+
+v_ABC__insert
+
+Is called 'insert' and is part of the 'ABC' namespace.
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