[libvirt] [RFC] Comfortable lookup functions interface/block stats
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Thu May 15 14:33:14 UTC 2008
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:35:33AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wouldn't it be much nicer for Joe Programmer if the API facilitated the
> functions:
>
> char ** virDomainInterfacePaths(virDomainPtr dom);
> char ** virDomainBlockPaths(virDomainPtr dom);
>
> I really don't get why XML parsing should be done for something that is
> almost too trivial to export. Any reasons why not to do implement this?
Hum, how would you use the paths out of their context ? I doubt
Joe Programmer would have much use for a list of paths without knowing
what they are used for.
But maybe I didn't understood your APIs suggestions...
Daniel
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