[libvirt] PATCH: Helper for enumerations

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:55:10PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "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.

Yep, unsigned int works just fine, so I've made that change and
committed the patch.

Regards
Daniel.
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