Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] RFC: luks/encrypted qcow2 key management

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 14.08.2019 um 23:08 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 8/14/19 3:22 PM, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 
> > This is an issue that was raised today on IRC with Kevin Wolf. Really thanks
> > for the idea!
> > 
> > We agreed that this new qmp interface should take the same options as
> > blockdev-create does, however since we want to be able to edit the 
> > encryption
> > slots separately, this implies that we sort of need to allow this on 
> > creation
> > time as well.
> > 
> > Also the BlockdevCreateOptions is a union, which is specialized by the 
> > driver name
> > which is great for creation, but for update, the driver name is already 
> > known,
> > and thus the user should not be forced to pass it again.
> > However qmp doesn't seem to support union type guessing based on actual 
> > fields
> > given (this might not be desired either), which complicates this somewhat.
> 
> Does the idea of a union type with a default value for the discriminator
> help?  Maybe we have a discriminator which defaults to 'auto', and add a
> union branch 'auto':'any'.  During creation, if the "driver":"auto"
> branch is selected (usually implicitly by omitting "driver", but also
> possible explicitly), the creation attempt is rejected as invalid
> regardless of the contents of the remaining 'any'.  But during amend
> usage, if the 'auto' branch is selected, we then add in the proper
> "driver":"xyz" and reparse the QAPI object to determine if the remaining
> fields in 'any' still meet the specification for the required driver branch.
> 
> This idea may still require some tweaks to the QAPI generator, but it's
> the best I can come up with for a way to parse an arbitrary JSON object
> with unknown validation, then reparse it again after adding more
> information that would constrain the parse differently.

Feels like this would be a lot of code just to allow the client to omit
passing a value that it knows anyway. If this were a human interface, I
could understand the desire to make commands less verbose, but for QMP I
honestly don't see the point when it's not trivial.

Kevin

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