Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 02/12] qapi: Don't use info as witness of implicit object type

[Eric Blake]

On 10/06/2015 02:32 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:

>> If entity is an implicit ObjectType, return True. If it is implicit but
>> not an object (such as an implicit enum), or is not implicit (regardless
>> of whether it is an ObjectType), then return False.
>>
>> And if you don't need filtering by python type, then
>> entity.is_implicit() (shorthand for entity.is_implicit(None)) then gives
>> the correct answer whether entity is ObjectType or EnumType or something
>> else.
> 
> I find
> 
>     isinstance(entity, QAPISchemaObjectType) and entity.is_implicit()
> 
> more obvious than
> 
>     entity.is_implicit(QAPISchemaObjectType)

Well, I had already written v7 before this request of yours; do you want
to see how it turned out, before deciding if I need a v8 that throws the
isinstance check burden back on the caller?

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/366810/focus=366809

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