Re: [PATCH v2 27/31] qom: Add user_creatable_add_from_str()

This is a version of user_creatable_process_cmdline() with an Error parameter that never calls exit() and is therefore usable in HMP. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf(a)redhat.com&gt; --- include/qom/object_interfaces.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ qom/object_interfaces.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

+/** + * user_creatable_add_from_str: + * @optarg: the object definition string as passed on the command line + * @errp: if an error occurs, a pointer to an area to store the error + * + * Create an instance of the user creatable object by parsing optarg + * with a keyval parser and implicit key 'qom-type', converting the + * result to ObjectOptions and calling into qmp_object_add(). + * + * If a help option is given, print help instead. + * + * Returns: true when an object was successfully created, false when an error + * occurred (*errp is set then) or help was printed (*errp is not set). + */ +bool user_creatable_add_from_str(const char *optarg, Error **errp);