Rather than simply checking that the 'return' field is of the expected type we can directly return it as the caller is very likely going to use it. Extract the code into the new function and add a wrapper to preserve old functionality. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c index f4e942a32f..e6cfaaf0e9 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c @@ -396,15 +396,15 @@ qemuMonitorJSONCheckError(virJSONValue *cmd, } -static int -qemuMonitorJSONCheckReply(virJSONValue *cmd, - virJSONValue *reply, - virJSONType type) +static virJSONValue * +qemuMonitorJSONGetReply(virJSONValue *cmd, + virJSONValue *reply, + virJSONType type) { virJSONValue *data; if (qemuMonitorJSONCheckError(cmd, reply) < 0) - return -1; + return NULL; data = virJSONValueObjectGet(reply, "return"); if (virJSONValueGetType(data) != type) { @@ -417,9 +417,21 @@ qemuMonitorJSONCheckReply(virJSONValue *cmd, _("unexpected type returned by QEMU command '%s'"), qemuMonitorJSONCommandName(cmd)); - return -1; + return NULL; } + return data; +} + + +static int +qemuMonitorJSONCheckReply(virJSONValue *cmd, + virJSONValue *reply, + virJSONType type) +{ + if (!qemuMonitorJSONGetReply(cmd, reply, type)) + return -1; + return 0; } -- 2.38.1