Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: libyajl for JSON

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/11/2015 14:46, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> > Can you explain why that would make sense? :)  (Especially since there
>> > is another extension---JSON5---that does exactly what we're doing, so it
>> > probably wasn't that stupid an idea).
> Let's be pragmatic. *If* this is the only issue stopping us from
> dropping our own parser in favor of something more widely used and
> *if* libvirt doesn't make use of the feature, it's something we
> should strongly consider.

I'm not sure what's so bad about our parser that makes it worthwhile to:

1) uglify all tests and make them inconsistent with the QAPI schemas,
which also uses single-quoted strings

2) waste time finding a replacement for % interpolation (the best
replacement here would be to rewrite the tests in Python IMHO, but
that's not a small ask)

Just let's remove the weird (to not say worse) usage of QDict/QList to
store tokens...

Paolo