On 13/04/21 11:48, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Oh, there is qapi/qom.json -- maybe that does the trick.
(I have mixed feelings about having to specify the same thing twice at
different locations)
With reason.
We've talked about generating QOM boilerplate from the QAPI schema, but
haven't progressed to actual patches.
There is an initial sketch at
https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QOM-QAPI_integration, covering what can
be done before touching the code generator.
The basic idea is to keep property getters, which allow to read how an
object was configured and already vastly reduces the amount of
boilerplate, and replace the setters with a method that takes a QAPI
visitor.
Later on the low-level QAPI code can be generated by qapi-gen, similar
to QMP commands. However, unlike QMP (where QAPIfication included
switching from raw QDicts to QAPI structs) here we already start with
code that uses vistors and QAPI structs. So it's not like having to
rewrite things twice.
Paolo
