I will use ObjectOptionsQueue like the typedef just above.
Paolo
Il sab 13 mar 2021, 10:57 Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> ha scritto:
> One more little thing...
>
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Emulators are currently using OptsVisitor (via user_creatable_add_opts)
> > to parse the -object command line option. This has one extra feature,
> > compared to keyval, which is automatic conversion of integers to lists
> > as well as support for lists as repeated options:
> >
> > -object
> memory-backend-ram,id=pc.ram,size=1048576000,host-nodes=0,policy=bind
> >
> > So we cannot replace OptsVisitor with keyval right now. Still, this
> > patch moves the user_creatable_add_opts logic to vl.c since it is
> > not needed anywhere else, and makes it go through
> user_creatable_add_qapi.
> >
> > In order to minimize code changes, the predicate still takes a string.
> > This can be changed later to use the ObjectType QAPI enum directly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> [...]
> > diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
> > index ff488ea3e7..b245e912e5 100644
> > --- a/softmmu/vl.c
> > +++ b/softmmu/vl.c
> > @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
> > #include "qapi/qapi-commands-block-core.h"
> > #include "qapi/qapi-commands-migration.h"
> > #include "qapi/qapi-commands-misc.h"
> > +#include "qapi/qapi-visit-qom.h"
> > #include "qapi/qapi-commands-ui.h"
> > #include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
> > #include "sysemu/iothread.h"
> > @@ -132,10 +133,16 @@ typedef struct BlockdevOptionsQueueEntry {
> >
> > typedef QSIMPLEQ_HEAD(, BlockdevOptionsQueueEntry) BlockdevOptionsQueue;
> >
> > +typedef struct ObjectOption {
> > + ObjectOptions *opts;
> > + QTAILQ_ENTRY(ObjectOption) next;
> > +} ObjectOption;
> > +
>
> The names feel awkward.
>
> ObjectOption represents a -object option. Fair enough.
>
> ObjectOptions represents the "options" in its option argument.
>
> Confusing. Calling the whole thing and one of its parts the same is a
> bad idea.
>
> I never liked calling the key=value things in option arguments
> "options". They aren't CLI options, they are optional CLI option
> parameters.
>
> I also don't like calling so many different things "object" (QObject,
> Object, ObjectOption, ObjectOptions), but that feels out of scope here.
>
> Can we please rename ObjectOptions?
>
> A naming convention for CLI option argument types and boxed QMP command
> argument types would be nice.
>
> [...]
>
>
