Benoît Canet writes: > 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 ? I was waiting for some other series to get merged, since they conflict. But I still did not change the "include" syntax. I will probably not be able to get to this until May 1st. Lluis -- "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
