[libvirt] [PATCH 00/16] Revert Jansson usage

[Eric Blake]

On 08/13/2018 06:55 AM, Ján Tomko wrote:
> For QEMU, we need a JSON parser that is able to handle its non-compliant
> JSON usage:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614569
> 

QEMU is not non-compliant in its use of JSON.  Rather, 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159 states that "This specification 
allows implementations to set limits on the range and precision of 
numbers accepted." and Jansson has merely chosen to enforce tighter 
limits than what qemu emits, with no (obvious) recourse into being 
patched to allow us to hook in our own parser to work around Jansson's 
inherent limits.

> Unfortunately, this does not seem to be possible with Jansson.
> 
> Revert back to using yajl, which also lets us get rid of the 'dlopen'
> hacks and their bugfixes.
> 
> (The QEMU default changes are not strictly required, but the patches
>   specifically use JANSSON)

That said, I'm not opposed to the revert, if we can't convince the 
Jansson developers of our need.

:(

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