Am 19.09.2016 um 14:12 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:58:30PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Fortunately there is no existing object that implements > > the UserCreatable interface that relies on the list > > handling behaviour, so it is possible to swap out the > > OptsVisitor for a different visitor implementation, so > > -object supports non-scalar properties, thus leaving > > other users of OptsVisitor unaffected. > > Urgh, I've just discovered that this is not in fact true. > > The 'memory-backend' object type uses uint16List which > has the hacky list syntax > > -object memory-backend-ram,\ > id=ram-node2,size=24578621440,policy=bind,\ > host-nodes=1-2,host-nodes=5,host-nodes=7, > > So I'll need to figure out a way to preserve this syntax...
If this turns out rather hard, would it make sense to merge just patches 1 to 5 for now to enable -blockdev, which doesn't need this syntax? Then you can add the magic list syntax as a follow-up together with the -object work. Kevin
