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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-03-12 10:47:07 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-03-12 10:47:07 +0000
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/qmp-unstable/queue/qmp' into staging
* remotes/qmp-unstable/queue/qmp: tests: test-qmp-commands: Fix double free qapi script: do not add "_" for every capitalized char in enum qapi script: do not allow string discriminator qapi: convert BlockdevOptions to use enum discriminator qapi script: support enum type as discriminator in union qapi script: use same function to generate enum string qapi script: code move for generate_enum_name() qapi script: check correctness of union qapi script: remember line number in schema parsing qapi script: add check for duplicated key qapi script: remember explicitly defined enum values Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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@@ -123,11 +123,12 @@ And it looks like this on the wire:
Flat union types avoid the nesting on the wire. They are used whenever a
specific field of the base type is declared as the discriminator ('type' is
-then no longer generated). The discriminator must always be a string field.
+then no longer generated). The discriminator must be of enumeration type.
The above example can then be modified as follows:
+ { 'enum': 'BlockdevDriver', 'data': [ 'raw', 'qcow2' ] }
{ 'type': 'BlockdevCommonOptions',
- 'data': { 'driver': 'str', 'readonly': 'bool' } }
+ 'data': { 'driver': 'BlockdevDriver', 'readonly': 'bool' } }
{ 'union': 'BlockdevOptions',
'base': 'BlockdevCommonOptions',
'discriminator': 'driver',
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