The Thursday 13 Mar 2014 à 19:05:12 (+0100), Lluís Vilanova wrote : > Eric Blake writes: > > > On 03/13/2014 09:33 AM, Benoît Canet wrote: > >>> We certainly can't do without comments. > >>> > >>> JSON is designed for easy data exchange, but we use it as programming > >>> language syntax. Its restrictions make sense for easy data exchange, > >>> but hurt our use. We're not the first ones experiencing that pain: > >>> http://json5.org/ > >>> > >>> No idea how much momentum this JSON5 thingy has... > > > If we 's,#,//,', our comments magically fall in line with JSON5 syntax; > > everything else in our files is already compliant with JSON5. > > >>> > >>> Switch to JSON5 and call it qapi-schema.json5? > > > This actually seems like a rather nice idea - but due to our choice of > > comments, it means rewriting the bulk of the file and tweaking our parser. > > >>> > >> > >> Hmm don't we want something that python and other language know how to > >> parse out > >> of the box ? Or will we write yet another delicate work of art to parse it > >> ? > > > Our existing parser would only need to learn a new comment syntax to > > parse the subset of JSON5 that we currently actually use. Parsing FULL > > JSON5 would mean also learning about trailing commas, unquoted names in > > name:value pairs, multiline strings, and alternative numeric > > representations. But a point made on the JSON5 page is that ES5 > > JavaScript already parses JSON5, just as it already parses original JSON. > > Another option is to bump QEMU requirements to python 2.6 or later. Then we > can > use the json parser that comes with python. A simple pre-processing could > eliminate the comments before passing them to the json package for loading > into > python structures. The commands/enums/etc should also be elements of a list > for > it to work (that must be either changed on the qapi files, or hackishly > "injected" before parsing). > > > Lluis
I have an use case for this series. Lluis: Do you plan to respin this series ? Or should I do it ? Best regards Benoît > > -- > "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn > something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." > -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom > Tollbooth >
