[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix python error reporting for some storage operations

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Aug 12 10:08:23 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:58:55PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> In the python bindings, all vir* classes expect to be
> passed a virConnect object when instantiated. Before
> the storage stuff, these classes were only instantiated
> in virConnect methods, so the generator is hardcoded to
> pass 'self' as the connection instance to these classes.
> 
> Problem is there are some methods that return pool or vol
> instances which aren't called from virConnect: you can
> lookup a storage volume's associated pool, and can lookup
> volumes from a pool. In these cases passing 'self' doesn't
> give the vir* instance a connection, so when it comes time
> to raise an exception crap hits the fan.
> 
> Rather than rework the generator to accomodate this edge
> case, I just fixed the init functions for virStorage* to
> pull the associated connection out of the passed value
> if it's not a virConnect instance.

I see what you mean. This is actually the fix I would have done
anyway - changing the generator in any more complex way is just
a huge time sink :-) So ACK

Daniel
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