[libvirt] PATCH: Helper for enumerations
Jim Meyering
jim at meyering.net
Sun Jun 15 21:55:10 UTC 2008
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> There are quite a few places in our code where we have to convert from
> a string to an int enumeration, and vica-verca. This is tedious code to
> write, and I'm about to introduce a tonne more enumerations in the new
> generic domain XML parser / generator. So I reckon its time for some
> helper APIs
...
Very nice. That's been annoying me for some time.
ACK
> diff -r bc1615919490 src/util.c
> --- a/src/util.c Fri Jun 13 15:43:20 2008 +0100
> +++ b/src/util.c Fri Jun 13 18:52:39 2008 +0100
> @@ -798,3 +798,24 @@
> return idx;
> }
>
> +int virEnumFromString(const char *const*types,
> + int ntypes,
If using an unsigned type (size_t or unsigned int) doesn't cause too
much disruption among the callers, that'd be nice, since negative
"ntypes" is not useful.
> + const char *type)
> +{
> + int i;
matching type here, too.
ACK, either way.
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