[libvirt] virSecurityLabel

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Dec 19 09:36:07 UTC 2014


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 09:48:15PM +0100, Claudio Bley wrote:
> At Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:55:58 +0100,
> Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > 
> > On 16.12.2014 23:09, Claudio Bley wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Looking at the API docs, the virSecurityLabel is one of the
> > > undisclosed structs, making its members not publicly available.
> > 
> > I don't think it is. It's defined in include/libvirt/libvirt-host.h:
> > 
> > typedef struct _virSecurityLabel {
> >     char label[VIR_SECURITY_LABEL_BUFLEN];
> >     int enforcing;
> > } virSecurityLabel;
> > 
> > typedef virSecurityLabel *virSecurityLabelPtr;
> > 
> > In fact, the commit that added virDomainGetSecurityLabel() API
> > (0b7860ecdd855251f1) exposed the virSecurityLabel struct too.
> 
> Good, but it doesn't show up in the API docs. See
> http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-host.html#virSecurityLabel
> and http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-host.html#virSecurityModel
> 
> After some digging around I found out what the problem is. The
> apibuild.py script doesn't like the typedef with the in-line struct
> definition.

Yeah I've hit that and not been able to figure out how to fix the
API parser, so generally just change the struct definition instead.

> Other structs with no field elements in libvirt-api.xml are
> 
> virConnect
> virDomain
> virDomainSnapshot
> virInterface
> virNetwork
> virNodeDevice
> virNWFilter
> virSecret
> virStoragePool
> virStorageVol
> virStream
> 
> I think these are truly non-public structs, so that should be OK.

None of their fields are shown in the public header files anyway.

Regards,
Daniel
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