[libvirt] [PATCH] esx: Generate most SOAP mapping and improve inheritance handling

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Mar 31 12:28:27 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:36:15PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> The Python script generates the mappings based on the type descriptions
> in the esx_vi_generator.input file.
> 
> This also improves the inheritance handling and allows to get rid of the
> ugly, inflexible, and error prone _base/_super approach. Now every struct
> that represents a SOAP type contains a _type member, that allows to
> recreate C++-like dynamic dispatch for "method" calls in C.
> ---
>  src/Makefile.am                |   23 +-
>  src/esx/.gitignore             |    1 +
>  src/esx/esx_driver.c           |   10 +-
>  src/esx/esx_vi.c               |   51 +-
>  src/esx/esx_vi.h               |    7 +-
>  src/esx/esx_vi_generator.input |  426 ++++++++
>  src/esx/esx_vi_generator.py    | 1025 ++++++++++++++++++
>  src/esx/esx_vi_methods.c       |   44 +-
>  src/esx/esx_vi_types.c         | 2258 +++++-----------------------------------
>  src/esx/esx_vi_types.h         | 1090 +-------------------
>  10 files changed, 1868 insertions(+), 3067 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 src/esx/.gitignore
>  create mode 100644 src/esx/esx_vi_generator.input
>  create mode 100755 src/esx/esx_vi_generator.py

  Hum, the generator code, like all generators, is a bit hard to read,
but the nice clean format for the input and the vast amount of removed
code is a real improvement. Integration in Makefiles looks fine, patch
applies and build without trouble for me, so

  ACK

Daniel

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