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

[Avi Kivity]

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.

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

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