Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 5/5] remote generator: Move blacklist to a file and add explicit whitelist
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:32:57PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Yeah, either we duplicate the VIR_CONNECT_RO flag checks in
the remote dispatch, or we could actually generate the libvirt.c
and driver.h files too, based on the RPC.
<advocacy>
More code generation is better. Here is all the code you need to
write to make a new libguestfs API function:
http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ffa2d6798f7a2bf0...
That's not a printing error, it really is just 38 lines of code.
From that template we generate:
- RPC stubs similar to libvirt remote driver
- bindings in around 8 programming languages
- <guestfs.h> header file
- several manual pages, eg: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#api_calls
- guestfish
- part of the automated tests
This is a huge time saver, and reduces bugs.
</advocacy>
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)
http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora