Quoting Markus Armbruster (2015-08-04 10:58:14) > Caution, rough edges. > > qapi/introspect.json defines the introspection schema. It should do > for uses other than QMP. > FIXME it's almost entirely devoid of comments. > > The introspection schema does not reflect all the rules and > restrictions that apply to QAPI schemata. A valid QAPI schema has an > introspection value conforming to the introspection schema, but the > converse is not true. > > Introspection lowers away a number of schema details: > > * The built-in types are declared with their JSON type. > > TODO Should we map all the integer types to just int?
I don't think we should. If management chooses to handle them in this generic fashion that's their perogative/problem, but treating all ints as a single generic type can lead to unexpected results when those values get passed on to functions expecting, for instance, uint8_t. So QEMU should do its part to convey this information somehow.
