[Libvir] Generate python binding for network APIs

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:24:34AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:42:29AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > I was about to make use of the new networking APIs in virt-manager/virt-install
> > when I discovered we don't have any python binding for it. Attached is the
> > quickest patch I could write to support it - I basically copied all the
> > virDomain related bits & s/Domain/Network/ throughout. A simple demo script
> > works:
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > 
> > import libvirt
> > 
> > con = libvirt.open(None)
> > 
> > n = con.listNetworks()
> > print str(n)
> > for name in n:
> >     net = con.lookupByName(name)
> >     print net.XMLDesc(0)
> >     print net.bridgeName()
> > 
> > I think there are a couple more methods which need manual implementations
> > though - eg  UUIDString() is generated incorrectly - in fact the UUIDString()
> > impl for virDomains is already broken, and so is the binding for VCPU
> > pinning.
> 
>   Okay, that looks good to me and considering that I would like to push
> a new release real soon, it would be a bit sad to not have the python bindings
> for the new functionalities. Please apply :-), thanks !
>   On a related note, I think I would be ready to drop the generator stuff
> in some recent future, I can see how it makes things rather harder, and does
> not provide that much value considering we are trying to keep a rather small
> API.

I figure we can just take the current auto-generated C code and commit
that to CVS, and remove the generator rules/scripts. Then we can incrementally
cleanup the C code over time. The actual generated code is fairly sane and
clear already.

Dan.
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