Re: [PATCH v2 09/11] Give virDomainDef parser & formatter their own flags

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 14:13:19 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 03:05:48PM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 15:48:20 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> > > The virDomainDefParse* and virDomainDefFormat* methods both
> > > accept the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_* flags defined in the public API,
> > > along with a set of other VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_* flags
> > > defined in domain_conf.c.
> > > 
> > > This is seriously confusing & error prone for a number of
> > > reasons:
> > > 
> > >  - VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE, VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE and
> > >    VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU are only relevant for the
> > >    formatting operation
> > >  - Some of the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_* flags only apply
> > >    to parse or to format, but not both.
> > > 
> > > This patch cleanly separates out the flags. There are two
> > > distint VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_* and VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_*
> > > flags that are used by the corresponding methods. The
> > > VIR_DOMAIN_XML_* flags received via public API calls must
> > > be converted to the VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_* flags where
> > > needed.
> > > 
> > > The various calls to virDomainDefParse which hardcoded the
> > > use of the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE flag change to use the
> > > VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_INACTIVE flag.
> > ...
...
> > > @@ -2160,7 +2162,8 @@ qemuDomainSnapshotWriteMetadata(virDomainObjPtr vm,
> > >  
> > >      virUUIDFormat(vm->def->uuid, uuidstr);
> > >      newxml = virDomainSnapshotDefFormat(uuidstr, snapshot->def,
> > > -                                        QEMU_DOMAIN_FORMAT_LIVE_FLAGS, 1);
> > > +                                        VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_SECURE |
> > > +                                        VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_UPDATE_CPU, 1);
> > 
> > What about
> > virDomainDefFormatConvertXMLFlags(QEMU_DOMAIN_FORMAT_LIVE_FLAGS) to make
> > sure we still use the right flags in case QEMU_DOMAIN_FORMAT_LIVE_FLAGS
> > is ever changed?
> 
> QEMU_DOMAIN_FORMAT_LIVE_FLAGS uses the VIR_DOMAIN_XML flags from the
> public API, whereas this method needs to use the internal flags.

Exactly, that's why I suggested to use virDomainDefFormatConvertXMLFlags
to convert them instead of hardcoding the result of this conversion.

Jirka

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