Add support for converting objects nested in arrays with a numbering
discriminator on the command line. This syntax is used for the
object-based specification of disk source properties.
For use with memory hotplug virQEMUBuildCommandLineJSONRecurse attempted
to format JSON arrays as bitmap on the command line. Make the formatter
function configurable so that it can be reused with different syntaxes
of arrays such as numbered arrays for use with disk sources.
This patch extracts the code and adds a parameter for the function that
will allow to plug in different formatters.
Until now the JSON->commandline convertor was used only for objects
created by qemu. To allow reusing it with disk formatter we'll need to
escape ',' as usual in qemu commandlines.
Refactor the command line generator by adding a wrapper (with
documentation) that will handle the outermost object iteration.
This patch also renames the functions and tweaks the error message for
nested arrays to be more universal.
The new function is then reused to simplify qemucommandutiltest.
Move the module from qemu_command.c to a new module virqemu.c and
rename the API to virQEMUBuildObjectCommandline.
This API will then be shareable with qemu-img and the need to build
a security object for luks support.
Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Unlike -device, qemu uses a JSON object to add backend "objects" via the
monitor rather than the string that would be passed on the commandline.
To be able to reuse code parts that configure backends for various
devices, this patch adds a helper that will allow generating the command
line representations from the JSON property object.
Andrea Bolognani