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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]: change libxl IDL to export a saner interface fo

To: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]: change libxl IDL to export a saner interface for upcoming language bindings
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:37:25 +0100
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On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:07 +0100, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> Firstly remove an anonymous union in libxl_device_pci structure which
> was making auto-generating language bindings more complicated than
> necessary and exporting random bits of low level ABI that libxl that
> would rather hide anyway. There is a corresponding (untested) change to
> the ocaml binding which maintains previous ml API.
> 
> Also make the libxl_file_reference type a Builtin. This is a 'semantic
> correctness' issue in that libxl ABI/API won't change. But it makes it
> so that when the IDL is used to generate language bindings that a
> file_reference type is not exported.

You forgot to mention the addition of the Numbers type.

Otherwise:

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

> -libxl_file_reference = Struct("file_reference",[
> -    ("path", string, False,
> -"""Path is always set if the file reference is valid. However if
> -mapped is true then the actual file may already be unlinked."""),
> -    ("mapped", integer),
> -    ("data", void),
> -    ("size", size_t)], autogenerate_destructor=False)
> +libxl_file_reference = Builtin("file_reference",
> +                               autogenerate_destructor=False,
> +                               destructor_fn="libxl_file_reference_destroy",
> +                               passby=PASS_BY_REFERENCE)

autogenerate_destructor=False doesn't do much on a Builtin in any case
since we never generate destructors for builtins. It should probably
just be a default in the base type.

i.e. cumulatively on your patch:

Subject: libxl: Builtin types default to autogenerate_destructor=False

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r fe1050a60d8f -r c2b17bd27d7d tools/libxl/libxl.idl
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl.idl     Thu Sep 09 14:32:34 2010 +0100
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.idl     Thu Sep 09 14:34:45 2010 +0100
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ libxl_nic_type = Number("nic_type", name
 
 libxl_string_list = Builtin("string_list", 
destructor_fn="libxl_string_list_destroy", passby=PASS_BY_REFERENCE)
 libxl_key_value_list = Builtin("key_value_list", 
destructor_fn="libxl_key_value_list_destroy", passby=PASS_BY_REFERENCE)
+libxl_file_reference = Builtin("file_reference", 
destructor_fn="libxl_file_reference_destroy", passby=PASS_BY_REFERENCE)
 
 libxl_cpumap = Builtin("cpumap", destructor_fn="free")
 
@@ -78,11 +79,6 @@ libxl_domain_create_info = Struct("domai
     ("poolid",       uint32),
     ("poolname",     string),
     ])
-
-libxl_file_reference = Builtin("file_reference",
-                               autogenerate_destructor=False,
-                               destructor_fn="libxl_file_reference_destroy",
-                               passby=PASS_BY_REFERENCE)
 
 libxl_domain_build_info = Struct("domain_build_info",[
     ("max_vcpus",       integer),
diff -r fe1050a60d8f -r c2b17bd27d7d tools/libxl/libxltypes.py
--- a/tools/libxl/libxltypes.py Thu Sep 09 14:32:34 2010 +0100
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxltypes.py Thu Sep 09 14:34:45 2010 +0100
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ class Builtin(Type):
     """Builtin type"""
     def __init__(self, typename, **kwargs):
         kwargs.setdefault('destructor_fn', None)
+        kwargs.setdefault('autogenerate_destructor', False)
         Type.__init__(self, typename, **kwargs)
 
 class Number(Builtin):




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