On 11/21/2016 02:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> but I'd argue that using qobject_from_jsonf() is already less-than-useful.

In fact, we are down to only a handful of users of our modified 'jsonf'
format (that is, strings that mix JSON with % modifiers):

hw/pci/pcie_aer.c: build a 5-element QDict
monitor.c: build a 1-element QDict which contains a 2-element QDict
qapi/qmp-dispatch.c: build a 2-element QDict
qapi/qmp-event.c: Build a 2-element QDict

plus the testsuite (check-qjson.c).

>   It's hard to argue that the
> complexity of maintaining our pseudo-printf JSON parser for constructing
> a QObject with one line is worth the effort compared to the three or
> four lines to construct the same QObject by hand.

I'm severely tempted to just rip out all of the poorly-underdocumented %
parsing from the JSON parser, as it will simplify our code, without much
pain in converting the four real users to just manually build up the
same objects.

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