Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 01/14] Add XML flag for internal domain status

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:54:34PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 14:06 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:18:38PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >  
> > >   Hum, that's very confusing. Why expose that flag at the API level
> > > but forbid it's use from the API ?
> > >   Seems to me adding an extra parameter to the internal function
> > > virDomainDefParseXML() is a far cleaner way to do things by looking at
> > > this patch.
> > 
> > It'd be nice to only have 1 flag parameter for the internal methods.
> > Having 'flags' and 'privateFlags' to the same method is just going
> > to lead to code errors, passing the wrong flag in and it silently
> > failing 
> > 
> > We should not be adding this to the public API header file though.
> > 
> > Since we only have 2 flags in use currently, lets just mask off
> > the top 16 bits for internal use.
> > 
> > So in domain_conf.h add a enum starting at the 16th bit
> > 
> > 
> >    typedef enum {
> >      VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_STATUS = (1<<16), /* dump internal domain status information */
> >   } virDomainXMLInternalFlags;
> > 
> > 
> > And to be sure no one abusing this from public API, in
> > virDomainGetXMLDesc() scrub the incoming flags
> > 
> >   flags = flags & 0xffff;
> 
> How's this?

  Ha ... yes that works for me !

   thanks !

Daniel

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