Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] QOM/QAPI integration part 1

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 04.11.2021 um 13:39 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> On 11/4/21 10:07, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > The class implementations always want to store only their "local" config
> > options, but 'qom-config:classname' contains those of the parent class
> > as well.
> 
> Ah, I didn't understand that (hence the rubbish tag above).  It makes sense
> given that instance_config is called per-class while ObjectOptions stores
> all the info in one class.  That's a major change from my sketch, which
> planned to call the base class config function by hand (and handle the
> marshalling via QAPI 'base': '...').

Yeah, handling inheritance and how to represent things in the schema is
probably the two more interesting things this series changes compared to
your proposal.

I started with your model, but it just didn't work out nicely, because I
always had the full configuration in the child class and apart from just
being ugly, having all options of the parent class duplicated, but
ignored, would certainly be a source for a lot of confusion and bugs.

It took me a while to figure out how to deal with this, but I'm quite
happy with the result.

> > Oh, and I also wanted to say something about why not just directly using
> > the class name, which was my first idea: 'foo': 'iothread' looks more
> > like referencing an existing iothread rather than the configuration for
> > a new one. I wanted to leave us the option that we could possibly later
> > take a string for such options (a QOM path) and then pass the referenced
> > object to QMP commands as the proper QOM type.
> 
> I agree that 'iothread' is going to be confusing when you're referring to
> the configuration.
> 
> Anyway I'm totally fine with 'qom-config:classname'.  Given this
> explanation, however, one alternative that makes sense could be
> 'classname:full-config'. Then you could use 'classname:config' for the
> autoboxed configs---and reserve 'classname' to mean the pointer to an
> object.  Classes are (generally) lowercase and QAPI structs are
> CamelCase, so there is not much potential for collisions.

Makes sense to me, too.

I just checked and I actually already forbid class names with colons in
them (check_name_str() takes care of this), so yes, suffixes actually
work on the QAPI level.

If we actually want to use these types in manually written C code, we
might have to convert the name to CamelCase, though, for consistency
with the coding style.

We already have a function camel_to_upper(), we'd need a new
lower_to_camel(), so that from a class 'rng-random', you would get types
'RngRandomConfig' (the local ones) and 'RngRandomFullConfig' (with
parent options).

Kevin