Re: [Libvir] Proposal for the storage API (for discussion only)

Daniel Veillard wrote: >On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:53:27AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>>Using structures in the public API is not in keeping with the rest of >>>the libvirt APIs. We should be using XML for the main metadata >>>description >>>of volumes & pools. >>No, that doesn't make sense. XML for an API is a hack. It's hard to > > I disagree with you. XML is perfectly suitable for descriptions, >especially when you need extendability and you can't control the future >range >of extensions. It's not proper for 'runtime' operations, but as a way to >describe complex structures I find it fills its role perfectly. These are not complex structures. It's a list of volumes, and each volume has 3 or 4 attributes (name, total size, free space, and a few flags).