[virt-tools-list] [libosinfo 5/8] Add osinfo_db_identify_media

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:16:33PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:50:40PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Christophe Fergeau
> > <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > "if they are *really* needed". As we can't remove functions once they get
> > > into a release, I'd rather that we live without these functions for now,
> > > and see how different apps use the OsinfoMedia class,
> > 
> > There is no need to see. I already gave you example of one app
> > (actually there is no other user app ATM that I know of) that will
> > make use of the API I'm proposing.
> 
> I've put an emphasis on the 'really' for a reason. Boxes can do with the
> API I'm adding without any issues.
> 
> > If you could give me one reason why apps will want to make two calls
> > while they can make just one, I might get convinced.
> 
> This is not about apps, this is about libosinfo providing APIs that makes
> sense, rather than having libosinfo grow various overlapping APIs because
> this is more convenient for X, Y or Z.
> You are suggesting merging OsinfoMedia creation (ie
> osinfo_media_create_from_location) with media identification
> (osinfo_db_identify_media). What if we have users who want to identify a
> media that does not have an associated location?


The test suite (test/test-isodetect.c) is actually an existing user of
osinfo_db_identify_media which creates the media from scratch
(osinfo_media_new + manual setting of entity properties).

Christophe
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