On 08/22/2018 09:18 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

NACK, this is not correct.  null is a proper type of value in JSON, and
thus JSON.json_t must represent it as well.

This is even used in other parts, for example the check of backing
files of disks (see guestfs_impl_disk_has_backing_file).

Can you explain more about what a "null" JSON document looks like?

An example: qemu will accept the following substring, as part of BlockdevOptionsGenricCOWFormat, when specifically asking qemu to ignore the backing information present in a file and instead open the file without any backing:

{ "backing": null }

That is, JSON has "null", "true", and "false" as its three bare literals, which hold the same semantic weight as literal numbers, strings, [] arrays, and {} objects.

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