[libvirt] Generic processing of xml data

Hendrik Schwartke hendrik at os-t.de
Wed Feb 1 16:22:02 UTC 2012


Ok, seems that i missed something here. I tried to add some additional 
data to a domain description on monday but haven't a closer look at it.
I missed that I have to use the <metadata>-tag. So adding <domain 
type='kvm' id='25' xmlns:t="urn:foo" t:x="55">...</domain> doesn't work, 
or does it?
However, this patch will make my life much easier.
Great Work!



On 01.02.2012 16:41, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/01/2012 07:01 AM, Hendrik Schwartke wrote:
>> There are some changes made to the conf code to handle some new tags
>> like<title>  or to add some "metadata" to a domain description in the
>> last days.
>> I'm wondering if there is a more generic (read better) way to handle
>> those extra data in xml config elements.
>> I think it would be far more reasonable to use xml namespaces to enable
>> libvirt to differentiate between config options which it has to process
>> and data which are unknown to libvirt and thus are only stored without
>> any further processing.
> That's precisely what we have already started implementing.  We added
> the<metadata>  element that takes one sub-element per namespace for use
> by however the application sees fit:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-January/msg00943.html
> and have a pending API to allow runtime manipulation of that metadata:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-February/msg00032.html
>
>> This distinction could then by easily used for expansions like the
>> <title>-tag, to store the x- and y-position of a guest in a graphical
>> visualization of virtual networks, to add some names of administrators
>> which are responsible for the guests, to add some hints to interfaces
>> concerning quality of service, etc...
>>
>> I don't know how complex such in implementation would be but I think it
>> would be worth the effort.
> Right now, the only missing part is wiring up the proposed API from
> Peter's series to actually modify the XML from Zeeshan's patch, if you'd
> like to help with that.
>




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