[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH 2/2] RFC: generator: Handle shared callbacks in Python

[Richard W.M. Jones]

I have a partial patch which fixes this in a slightly different (but
overall quite similar) way.  The key observations are:

(1) OpaqueAndCallbacks is otherwise known as a list of Closures.  A
closure list in C corresponds to an opaque pointer + several function
pointers (as in your patch).

(2) But in other languages, Closures capture local state already so
don't require the opaque pointer at all.  ie. In OCaml you can already
write this to capture some local_data in the closure:

  let my_chunk_cb local_data subbuf count offset stats error =
    ...
  in

  NBD.pread_structured buf count offset (my_chunk_cb local_data) flags

Similarly in Python you can use lambda.  There's no need for the
opaque to be explicit at all in non-C languages.

(3) I don't think we actually have to name the opaque pointer.  We can
just always call it "void *user_data" in C.  (There is max one opaque
pointer per function).  This simplifies things a bit.

(4) We can also probably assume that either all non-persistent or all
persistent callbacks are required.  (Your patch does that already, but
mine uses a boolean flag instead of separate case).

Will post later.

Rich.

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