On 09/03/2015 03:26 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> >> I think we need to be careful that these descriptions are not >> interpreted by clients as an alternative to the more-specific >> constraints in the QAPI schema though. 'query-schema' seems >> a bit misleading in that regard, it appears to be more like >> 'query-schema-encoding' in function. But not sure it's worth >> renaming or anything so long as the documentation is clear. > > You have a point: "schema" can mean two related, yet different things. > There's the QAPI schema, and there's the QMP (the wire protocol) schema. > QMP introspection is about the latter, not the former. > > If we want to avoid the ambiguity, we could call the command > query-qmp-schema or something. > > Renaming query-schema now might confuse people coming from my KVM Forum > talk slightly, but if we can agree on a better name, let's do it.
I'm okay if you want to use 'query-qmp-schema'; it's a bit longer, but more precise, and doesn't cause too much grief to change the name at this point in the game. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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