[libvirt] [PATCH] Allow comma separated list of shutdown/reboot modes with virsh
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Fri Nov 30 19:03:34 UTC 2012
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:01:53PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> > > > + if (!(modes = virStringSplit(mode, ",", 0))) {
> > >
> > > Any reason you can't use vshStringToArray to do the split?
> >
> > I didn't know it existed - utility functions like that shouldn't
> > be in virsh code anyway. Now I know it exists, I'll kill it off
> > in favour of virStringSplit everywhere.
>
> Except that vshStingToArray _also_ does ',,' unescaping, so that:
>
> a,b,,c,d
>
> is split into "a", "b,c", "d", rather than "a", "b", "", "c", "d"
>
> so we'd still need a post-processing path after virStringSplit.
Well, which users of vshStringToArray actually need that feature ?
IIUC, the only ones are those which accept arbitrary user strings,
which is only 1/2 users in virsh. The rest can use the new API
with no practical loss in functionality, since they use fixed strings
where ',' is not used.
Daniel
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