Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 3/7] qapi: add a QmpInputVisitor that does string conversion

[Eric Blake]

On 07/05/2016 07:11 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Currently the QmpInputVisitor assumes that all scalar
> values are directly represented as their final types.
> ie it assumes an 'int' is using QInt, and a 'bool' is
> using QBool.
> 
> This adds an alternative constructor for QmpInputVisitor
> that will set it up such that it expects a QString for
> all scalar types instead.
> 
> This makes it possible to use QmpInputVisitor with a
> QDict produced from QemuOpts, where everything is in
> string format.

This is almost what I need for my netdev_add fallback on my qapi subset
F series, except that I want to have a hybrid mode that accepts BOTH
native type and string.  I'll take this patch and tweak it for my
series, and we can compare the difference.

> 
> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> ---


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