Re: [libvirt] [RFC] API vs XML
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:26:07AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
In my previous email Daniel made clear that for many functions it is
preferable to have access to the XML output. I would like to know what the
general opinion is about defining a domain.
I can understand that people don't mind to define a domain manually or
with tools and pump it inside libvirt with the virDomainDefineXML call.
But why are the XML tree manipulating features not incorporated into the
API? Slightly more 'semantics based' than Attach/Detach Device. Allowing
to specify the information that is going into the XML.
Believe me, I loathe XML for this purpose too. It defeats type
safety, encourages random 'extension' and is impossible to check if
the drivers conform. Nevertheless changing it now is a lot of extra
work for not much immediate benefit.
Rich.
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