Re: [libvirt] [RFC] Comfortable lookup functions interface/block stats
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel Veillard wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:35:33AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wouldn't it be much nicer for Joe Programmer if the API facilitated the
> functions:
>
> char ** virDomainInterfacePaths(virDomainPtr dom);
> char ** virDomainBlockPaths(virDomainPtr dom);
>
> I really don't get why XML parsing should be done for something that is
> almost too trivial to export. Any reasons why not to do implement this?
Hum, how would you use the paths out of their context ? I doubt
Joe Programmer would have much use for a list of paths without knowing
what they are used for.
But maybe I didn't understood your APIs suggestions...
If Joe Programmer needs to parse the XML file to fetch 'hda', 'hdb' why
not get them directly from the api?
Stefan