Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu v2] qmp: Add qom-list-properties to list QOM object properties

[Eric Blake]

On 03/01/2018 05:47 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:

> > > +##
> > > +{ 'struct': 'QOMPropertyInfo',
> > > +  'data': { 'name': 'str', 'type': 'str', '*description': 'str' } }
> >
> > So, this has identical contents to DevicePropertyInfo, and is very
> > similar to ObjectPropertyInfo.  Is there any way we could consolidate
> > those types?
>
> Sure, I can get rid of DevicePropertyInfo in favour of QOMPropertyInfo, I
> am just not sure if this typename is visible anywhere in the QMP protocol.

Introspection doesn't expose type names; you are free to change those at 
will (clients like libvirt that parse introspection merely get a list of 
members and types, regardless of what typename those members belonged to).


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