On 9/29/25 2:07 PM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
From: Anthony PERARD<[email protected]>
Patch series available in this git branch:
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/git-http/people/aperard/xen-unstable.git
br.libxl-libjsonc-v2
changes in v2:
- introduce $(XEN_JSON_LIBS) to have either -lyajl or -ljson-c or both (for a
short while).
- few more changes detail in each patches.
Hi,
The library YAJL has been unmaintained for several years, without an obvious
fork to pick.
On the other and the library json-c is been maintained and use by several other
project, it's probably already installed on your machine. So this patch series
intend to allow to build the Xen toolstack again json-c, and forgo yajl.
Do we have any plans to drop fallback to yajl in the next release? Or because of
this ...
Just in case, YAJL is can still be used.
There's bit of libxl API that exposes YAJL, mainly so it can be used by `xl` to
call libxl_domain_config_gen_json(). It was exposed via the "libxl_json.h"
headers. This functions and others won't be available when libxl is build
against json-c.
... that some API trying to use API exposed by YAJL we just can't drop support
of yajl?
~ Oleksii
Cheers,
Anthony PERARD (8):
tools/configure: Introduce deps on json-c lib for libxl
libxl: Convert libxl__json_parse() to use json-c
libxl: convert libxl__json_object_to_yajl_gen to
libxl__json_object_to_libjsonc_object
libxl: libxl__object_to_json() to json-c
libxl: convert libxl__json_object_to_json() to json_object
tools/libxenstat: Use json-c when available
configure: Use json-c by default, fallback to yajl
Update CHANGELOG and README with dependency on json-c
CHANGELOG.md | 2 +
README | 2 +-
config/Tools.mk.in | 1 +
tools/config.h.in | 3 +
tools/configure | 136 +++++-
tools/configure.ac | 10 +-
tools/include/libxl_json.h | 27 ++
tools/libs/light/Makefile | 6 +-
tools/libs/light/gentypes.py | 160 +++++-
tools/libs/light/idl.py | 7 +-
tools/libs/light/libxl_cpuid.c | 119 +++++
tools/libs/light/libxl_internal.h | 23 +-
tools/libs/light/libxl_json.c | 562 +++++++++++++++++++++-
tools/libs/light/libxl_qmp.c | 53 ++
tools/libs/light/libxl_types.idl | 7 +-
tools/libs/light/libxl_types_internal.idl | 3 +-
tools/libs/stat/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/libs/stat/xenstat_qmp.c | 126 ++++-
tools/xl/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/xl/xl_info.c | 102 +++-
20 files changed, 1312 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
