Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V4 09/24] libxl_json: introduce parser functions for builtin types

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:03:59PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:55:30AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> [...]
> > > And presumably if we are to make this change we also need to update
> > > libxl.h to have LIBXL_JSON_GENERATE_NUMBER-ish? What would you suggest
> > > for the name?
> > 
> > Does this actually change the output syntax at all? If it is just a bug
> > fix then we don't need to announce it I think. Any consumers of the JSON
> > will have to cope with the buggy version (if they want to) irrespective
> > of any #define.
> > 
> 
> I will need to check. Presumably it generates a string or something.
> 
> We can treat it as a bug fix if we only use yajl_gen_number of uint64_t,
> other uint types are not affect.

From the JSON format perspective, every numbers are signed decimal, I
think (after a quick look on wikipedia). The parser may make a difference
between signed/unsigned decimal/interger.

For the default value, it might make sense to not include them, since
there are basicly not set values.

-- 
Anthony PERARD

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