Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/23/2009 06:56 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 06/23/2009 05:45 PM, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> > > At this point my personal suggestion would be jsonrpc:
> > >
> > > - it's easy to parse (even in C)
> > > - it's text with markup
> > > - easy to generate
> > > - support utf-8
> > > - quoted string
> > > - it's not ugly to read (compare to xml)
> > > - can be embedded directly (no more library dependancy for qemu) in 
> > > the code
> > > - lots of language have json library making the interaction with the 
> > > monitor
> > >    easy from the other side
> >
> > - supports passing structure
> > - supports notifications
> > - supports asynchronous commands
> >
> > seems quite nice.
>
> I'd rather not do json.

Why not?

> As they stand, I think the current patch set is very close to being 
> mergable.  I'd rather not go off on a new tangent.

It fulfils all are requirements and more.  There's a C implementation 
available.  We can concentrate on the commands and ignore the plumbing.

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