On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 12:37:14AM +0100, Max Reitz wrote: > On 01.03.2016 00:24, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 02/29/2016 04:19 PM, Max Reitz wrote: > >> Turns out NBD is not so simple to do if you do it right. Anyway, this > >> series adds blockdev-add support for NBD clients. > >> > >> Patches 1 and 2 add one less and one more complicated QDict function, > >> respectively, which I needed in later NBD patches: Patch 1 for handling > >> legacy options (move "host" to "address.data.host" etc.) and patch 2 > >> because I'd like to use the input visitor for transforming the NBD > >> options into a SocketAddress. Unfortunately, the block layer uses > >> flattened QDicts everywhere, so we'll have to unflatten (erect?) them > >> before we can use that visitor. > > > > Dan had a patch proposal that called the operation "crumple"; I need to > > review both proposals and see which one I like. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg04618.html > > Well, here I go again, not looking at patches on the list... > > Looking at the design, I like his idea of having an escape sequence; > also, his qdict_crumple() can return boths lists and dicts where my > qdict_unflatten() only returns dicts (then again, this is what > qdict_flatten() always works on). And his patch doesn't suffer from as > much indentation as mine does.
The escape sequence is critical to support for my use case, because sadly some object properties have '.' in their name :-( > What I like more about my patch, however, is that I'm reusing > qdict_array_split() and qdict_array_entries(). That is mostly because my > function modifies the given QDict, where Dan's does not. The reason for that is that the use context in which I need to call qdict_crumple() has a const QDict, so modifying the original QDict was not an option. Second, for error handling, if there is a problem we can't resolve half way through the unflattening process, then if you're modifying the original QDict you end up with a QDict that is a hybrid between the flat & unflat forms. I think it is pretty bad practice for API design / behaviour to leave inputs in such a state on error. ie if the code isn't capable of rolling back to the original state it should not be modifying the input arg. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
