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[04/11] qdev: Avoid using string visitor for properties

Message ID 20210924090427.9218-5-kwolf@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series qdev: Add JSON -device and fix QMP device_add | expand

Commit Message

Kevin Wolf Sept. 24, 2021, 9:04 a.m. UTC
The only thing the string visitor adds compared to a keyval visitor is
list support. git grep for 'visit_start_list' and 'visit.*List' shows
that devices don't make use of this.

In a world with a QAPIfied command line interface, the keyval visitor is
used to parse the command line. In order to make sure that no devices
start using this feature that would make backwards compatibility harder,
just switch away from object_property_parse(), which internally uses the
string visitor, to a keyval visitor and object_property_set().

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
 softmmu/qdev-monitor.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Eric Blake Sept. 24, 2021, 6:40 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 11:04:20AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> The only thing the string visitor adds compared to a keyval visitor is
> list support. git grep for 'visit_start_list' and 'visit.*List' shows
> that devices don't make use of this.
> 
> In a world with a QAPIfied command line interface, the keyval visitor is
> used to parse the command line. In order to make sure that no devices
> start using this feature that would make backwards compatibility harder,
> just switch away from object_property_parse(), which internally uses the
> string visitor, to a keyval visitor and object_property_set().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> ---
>  softmmu/qdev-monitor.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c b/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
index 0705f00846..034b999401 100644
--- a/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
+++ b/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ 
 #include "qapi/qmp/dispatch.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qdict.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qstring.h"
+#include "qapi/qobject-input-visitor.h"
 #include "qemu/config-file.h"
 #include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "qemu/help_option.h"
@@ -198,16 +200,28 @@  static int set_property(void *opaque, const char *name, const char *value,
                         Error **errp)
 {
     Object *obj = opaque;
+    QString *val;
+    Visitor *v;
+    int ret;
 
     if (strcmp(name, "driver") == 0)
         return 0;
     if (strcmp(name, "bus") == 0)
         return 0;
 
-    if (!object_property_parse(obj, name, value, errp)) {
-        return -1;
+    val = qstring_from_str(value);
+    v = qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval(QOBJECT(val));
+
+    if (!object_property_set(obj, name, v, errp)) {
+        ret = -1;
+        goto out;
     }
-    return 0;
+
+    ret = 0;
+out:
+    visit_free(v);
+    qobject_unref(val);
+    return ret;
 }
 
 static const char *find_typename_by_alias(const char *alias)