[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Add QBuffer

[Jan Kiszka]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 11:55 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> The names of fields are also type information.
>>>      
>> Not in the case of device_show. The clients have no idea of the vmstate
>> structures before they were transfered. Granted, that will likely remain
>> a special case in the QMP command set.
>>    
> 
> For that use case, I agree.  Maybe we should send both the parsed and 
> unparsed information.

Now I can't parse what you mean.

> 
> But if the client isn't going to interpret the object and only display 
> it, then there is no need for __class__?

For that uncommon case, yes. But the common one is to perform a bit more
than raw JSON dictionary printing.

Jan

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