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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 19/19] qapi: New QMP command query-schema fo


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 19/19] qapi: New QMP command query-schema for QMP schema introspection
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 06:56:54 -0600
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On 04/15/2015 03:16 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Sat 11 Apr 2015 01:06:58 AM CEST, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>> +{ 'type': 'SchemaInfoEnum',
>>> +  'data': { 'values': ['str'] } }
>>
>> At one point, one thread suggested that we might want to allow QAPI to
>> support enums with fixed values, as in:
>>
>> 'data': [ {'one': 1}, {'three': 3} ]
> 
> Out of curiosity, what's the use case for that?

If we add that extension, it will allow the creation of C enums with
specific values, rather than defaulting to consecutive initialization
from 0.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org



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