Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 5/9] libxl IDL: generate code to parse libxl__json_object to libxl_FOO struct

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 03:22:13PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 10:32 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > libxl_FOO_parse_json functions are generated.
> > 
> > Note that these functions are used to parse libxl__json_object to
> > libxl__FOO struct. They don't consume JSON string.
> > 
> > The new function definitions are generated to new header files called
> > __libxl_types_*_json_internal.h so that they don't contaiminate public
> > header.
> 
> "contaminate".
> 
> I'm a bit confused what is going into this file. It seems to be these
> two:
> 
>     f.write("int %s_parse_json(libxl__gc *gc, const libxl__json_object *%s, 
> %s)\n" % (ty.typename,"o",ty.make_arg("p", passby=idl.PASS_BY_REFERENCE)))
>     f.write("int %s_from_json(libxl_ctx *ctx, %s, const char *s)\n" % 
> (ty.typename, ty.make_arg("p", passby=idl.PASS_BY_REFERENCE)))
> 

This hunk is in fact generating the implementation. I don't see the need
to separate them to different implementation files.

> The first looks internal (it takes const libxl__json_object which is
> internal) but it is in the libxl_ namespace.
> 
> The second looks like it should be public in _libxl_json.h, shouldn't
> it?
> 

I agree with you that the public functions should to go _libxl_types.h
-- it's done like that in this version already. So actually nothing to
worry about with regard to header files.

Wei.

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