[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] spice: expose the QEMU disable file transfer option

Francesco Romani fromani at redhat.com
Fri Jan 10 12:32:31 UTC 2014


Hi,

> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:21:25AM -0500, Francesco Romani wrote:
> > > the code to disable copy&paste uses VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR when it's not
> > > able to parse the enum value, but the compression code uses
> > > VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, and the mouse code uses VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR :(
> > > The rest of domain_conf.c is not very consistent in what error is
> > > reported
> > > on unknown enum values :( I'd personnally go with either
> > > VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED or VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR as they are more specific
> > > than VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR. However, given that the rest of the code is
> > > inconsistent, this can stay this way for now, and be fixed up at a later
> > > time.
> > 
> > I already have to resubmit, and I personally like errors to be specific,
> > so I will change to VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, because it seems the most
> > relevant.
> 
> Fwiw, I was thinking a bit more about this, and I'd tend to use
> VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED as meaning "libvirt knows about this enum value,
> but cannot handle it for some reason" vs VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR meaning "this
> document cannot be parsed because this enum value is invalid/unknown".
> So my preference here would go to VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR.

OK then, I'll change to VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR.

Thanks for the explanation,

-- 
Francesco Romani




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