On 04/18/18 17:27, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 04/18/18 17:17, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 04/18/2018 07:40 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> >>> Is it guaranteed that lists in JSON keep the order of the elements? >>> Because, dictionaries definitely don't promise any ordering between the >>> keys. >> >> Yes, JSON lists preserve order (and we have to explicitly document cases >> where order within a list is not significant). >> > > Thanks. > > After digesting the comments on @type for a while longer, from Dan, Gerd > and Paolo, I think we *should* keep @type, but rather than having it be > a simple enum, let's make it a list of enums, where order matters. Keep > @features separate, and document that order does not matter there. > > Here's why: my brain is crashing trying to come up with a > human-parseable explanation why for *some* entries in @features, their > relative order is important, and why for some others, it isn't. > Discerning the subset for which order matters, from any specific > grab-bag of @features, will be no fun for the human user. > > Given that the "ordered features" idea was brought to life solely > because a firmware can provide multiple interfaces (with a strong > preference order between them), I guess we might as well be honest about > that, and update @type accordingly. > > Thoughts? :) I mean I realize I just reinvented Paolo's point from <http://mid.mail-archive.com/c5e3f942-2c0e-9809-32ae-df97eaf2b7cd@xxxxxxxxxx> :) I don't intend to claim the idea, I just needed some time to understand it. Laszlo -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
