[libvirt] [PATCH 0/5] network: define new API virNetworkDefineXMLFlags

[Laine Stump]

On 08/20/2012 02:17 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
> I would like to enhance libvirt's network API to allow enacting any
> changes in definition immediately, as an alternative to the current
> behavior of saving the changes right away, but not using them until
> the next time the network is destroyed and re-started.
>
> This could easily be handled by a flag passed to
> virNetworkDefineXML().  Unfortunately, virNetworkDefineXML() was added
> to libvirt before we came up with the idea of adding a flags arg to
> every new API (just for things like this). To remedy this, I've
> effectively duplicated that API with a new API,
> virNetworkDefineXMLFlags(), which currently behaves identically, but
> has an extra "flags" argument.

danpb has convinced me that it's better not to overload virNetworkDefine
in this way, but instead to have a separate API similar to
virDomain(Attach|Update|Detach)Device, so I'm withdrawing this patch,
and will post a query in a separate thread about these new APIs.