[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] add virsh domxml-formats

[Eric Blake]

On 01/16/2012 06:01 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 01/13/2012 02:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> I previously proposed this here:
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00899.html
>> although it's been on my wish list a lot longer than that.
>>
>> Questions: I had the new API take nformats as an int, and return the
>> number of populated slots; should I switch this to take *nformats as
>> a pointer (being both input and output) with a return value of 0, so
>> as to be more consistent with things like virDomainGetMemoryParameters?
>>
>> I'm not very familiar with writing python bindings, at least not without
>> the benefit of copy-and-paste, and I didn't see a good example to copy
>> from.  Ultimately, I envision that the python API will be something like
>> virConnect.domainNativeFormats(self, flags), with a return being
>> a python list of strings (where the underlying code calls
>> virConnectDomainNativeFormats twice, once to determine the list
>> size, and once to determine the list contents), but I'm not sure how
>> to go about doing that (I don't know if generator.py can do it, or
>> if it needs an override, or what).  So I left the python bindings
>> undone, and would appreciate if someone else can step in and help.
>>
> 
> Hmm, why not just include this info in capabilities XML? Might not be as easy
> for some simple apps like virsh to consume, but it seems like more of the
> proper place to put this.
> 
> (sorry if this has been discussed before, I haven't been following
> libvirt-list too closely as of late).

Hmm, good idea.  We already use capabilities to expose the list of
supported migration URIs, so I'll see about re-spinning this patch into
one that adds the supported names as capabilities, then teaches virsh
domxml-formats to do an XPath scrape of the capabilities XML rather than
needing a new API.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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